Term Paper Is capital punishment defensible? Submitted to: MH In partial fulfillment of requirement for the course Use of English Submitted by: TDH Kingston‚ Jamaica June 13‚ 2003. Morgan Hill‚ a man convicted of murdering a nineteen-year-old woman‚ was the last person to be killed by the island’s judicial system some fourteen years ago. Our government suspended the death penalty in order that amendments could be made to the laws of our country‚ amendments that would protect
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Corrections MW 2:30-3:45 8/28/13 Deterrence Two types - General and specific General: Punishment as an example to the general public Specific: Punishment inflicted on criminals to deter Asumptions Operates under utilitarianism: human behavior is governed by the individual’s risk vs reward Punishment must be certain‚ swift‚ severe Are these reasonable assumptions? Incapacitation Defined: Simply put‚ when individuals are incarcerated or executed‚ they cannot commit further crimes
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Law and social control Social control refers to the method used by members of a society to maintain order and to promote predictable behaviors. There are many different forms of social control and law is one of them. There are two mechanism of social control Informal social control.- Methods of informal social control is best presented by folkways ( norms of common practices like dressing‚ etiquette‚ language use). These informal controls are not exercised through oficial groups mechanism
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References: Bois‚ N. D.(2011) Retribution and Rehabilitation: A Modern Conservative Justice Policy. Dale & Co. http://www.iaindale.com/posts/retribution-and-rehabilitation-a-modern-conservative-justice-policy Accessed [26.07.12] Birgden‚ A.(2008) Blackman‚ S. (1996) Drugs Education and the National Curriculum: An Evaluation of Drug Studies: A Resource
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goal of prevention includes three major components: deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ and incapacitation. Deterrence- Under this theory threat or imposition of punishment deters crimes in two ways: 1. Special Deterrence- when punishment of an offender deters him from committing further crimes 2. General Deterrence- when punishment of a wrongdoer deters other from committing similar offenses Factors influencing the effectiveness of deterrence are: 1. Likelyhood crime will be detected 2
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Title Throughout the course of criminological study‚ scholars have relied heavily on three different theoretical perspectives‚ with each perspective budding its own attitude in understanding crime‚ thus leading to the development of distinctive approaches to preventing and limiting both crime and deviance. Working in harmony with the three different criminological perspectives‚ scholars and philosophers alike have utilized film in an attempt to draw on widespread attitudes toward crime‚ victims
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Corrections CJA 444 March 12‚ 2012 Corrections Correctional officers are in charge of overseeing individuals who have been arrested and are currently awaiting trial‚ and those that have been convicted of a crime and sentenced to serve a sentence in jail of prison (Bureau of Labor Statistics‚ 2010-11). Correctional officers usually have no law enforcement duties outside of a prison of jail facility they work at maintaining order within the institute and they over see many inmates preventing assault
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“why we punish”: deterrence (“to keep them from doing it”)‚ incarceration (“to keep those who do it away from us”)‚ rehabilitation (“to help them stop doing it”)‚ and retribution (“because they deserve it”). Any punishment should fall in line with your basic theory of punishment. It seems to me that each theory of punishment‚ when applied and examined‚ ends up needing such a degree of retribution as justification that retribution may be said to be the primary theory. Deterrence is probably the
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Categorisation of arguments for and against the death penalty. 1. Consequentialist arguments: the deterrence argument‚ the prevention argument‚ economic arguments‚ effectiveness of the judicial and penal systems 2. Deontological arguments: the retribution argument‚ discriminatory use of the death penalty‚ right-to-life arguments‚ consideration of democratic rights 3. Virtue-based arguments: the rehabilitation argument‚ cruel and unusual punishments‚ 4. Mixed arguments: the human fallibility argument
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Public Affairs‚ examines deterrent effect of the death penalty. Choe compares state-level panel data of states with capital punishment/non-capital punishment related to homicide rates. Through uses of data he failed to find meaningful effects of deterrence of the death penalty. Most execution records does not have statistically meaningful lower homicide rates than no death penalty states. Choe explains that his paper does not aim to find “universal conclusions regarding the deterrent effect.” but
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