Research Paper May 7‚ 2007 Capital Punishment Capital punishment has been used since the beginning of man to punish people that have committed the most heinous crimes. All countries around the world‚ view capital punishment as a way to give criminals what they deserve and to rid the world of the people who will do nothing else but murder. The baffling protests against this ‘inhumane’ act started in America in the late twentieth century. People for some reason starting arguing and passing
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In the essay‚ Punishment‚ Communication and Community R.A. Duff seeks to find a way to reconcile criminal punishment in a liberal community. Duff argues the way to go about it is to make sure that punishment is inclusionary instead of exclusionary. Criminals should be treated as equal members of our political community and not as pariahs who need to be separated from the masses. Punishments that are currently in place are exclusionary. In the United States and the United Kingdom some localities
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Philosophy 338 Professor Hubin THE UTILITARIAN THEORY OF PUNISHMENT I. Utilitarian Theories of Punishment: Utilitarian justifications are forward-looking (consequentialistic) in nature. All of the questions about the justification of punishment (general justification‚ title and severity) will be answered by appeal to the utility (value) of the consequences of an action. A. The General Justification: All punishment is‚ according to the utilitarian‚ intrinsically bad‚ because it involves the
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HLA Hart wrote that any justification of punishment must at least justify the existence of a general system of punishment‚ the punishment of specific persons‚ and the specific type (and amount) of punishment to be imposed in a given scenario (Duff). With respect to the first component‚ which he called the “general justifying aim” of the system of punishment (Duff)‚ there are several purposes for instituting a penal system; the most common of which are general deterrence‚ specific deterrence‚ incarceration/incapacitation
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the use of punishment to maintain the social order. Those theories of punishment aim to provide understanding of why and how we punish. Generally‚ two of the most frequently used justifications of punishment are Retributivism and Utilitarianism. Retributivism is a theory of criminal justice that advocates punishment to be the best response and consequence in retribution for what criminals have inflicted. It is also the first theory answering the reason why we established punishment institutions
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proper punishment to you? Can you guess what topic I am to present? Ok‚ today I would like to talk about the crime and punishment in Hong Kong. Whenever you read newspaper or watch the news on TV‚ you can notice that the increasing number of crime but behind the fact of the crime. Do you think the punishment given to the offenders is appropriate? To me‚ I discovered that some of the offenders are too heavily punishment while some of them are not effectively deterred by the punishment. Just give
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Essay on capital punishment For many years‚ capital punishment has been an issue that has divided the American public opinion. Capital punishment remains a well-discussed issue in the United States‚ with advocates insisting that it has a deterrent effect on violent crime‚ and opponents insisting that it’s misguided for many reasons. It’s evident that capital punishment is not only wrong‚ but also expensive‚ ineffective and immoral. Capital punishment is much more expensive than lifetime imprisonment
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Topic: Some people believe that there should be fixed punishments for each type of crime. Others‚ however‚ argue that the circumstances of an individual crime‚ and the motivation for committing it‚ should always be taken into account when deciding on the punishment. Discuss both these views and give your own opinion. Nowadays‚ many people are debating for whether we should fix punishment for each type of crime or not. And this becomes a very hot issue. There are so many arguments
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In Crime and Punishment‚ Raskolnikov concocts a theory: All men are divided into ‘ordinary’ and ‘extraordinary’. The extraordinary man should have the right to eliminate a few people in order to make his idea known to all humanity; however‚ the ordinary man has no right to transgress the law. Because he believes this theory is an idea that must be known to all humanity‚ he considers himself extraordinary; however‚ there is a legion of events that prove that Raskolnikov is
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Throughout the years‚ our justice system has become less focused on giving criminals a just punishment and more focused on the fame and publicity that a large scale crime can allow. With every big criminal case‚ there are people rushing to read the headlines and learn everything there is about the criminal: their past‚ their living situation‚ their family‚ their mental state. We become so focused on the criminal that we often times overlook the crime itself. Headlines focus more on the people who
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