Reasons and Explanations for Sentencing Criminals By Daniel L. McGivern There are four main philosophical reasons surrounding the purpose of sentencing criminals. Retribution is of the main reasons and is the philosophy that is the criminal’s punishment that shall be determined on the severity of the crime that has been committed. The retribution philosophy goes by the Old Testament which states “eye for an eye.” Deterrence is also another reason. The basis of
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Do you think if it was to be your child doing this you should be held accountable for their crime? I believe parents should not be held responsible for crimes that their children committed because they did not force their child/children to do the crime. Since people do have a mind of their own and would probably still do these crimes even if their parents told them not too. The question is‚ are parents really the core of the problem or are there other bigger issues we have to consider? Many parents
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A worldwide situation in criminal justice is the youth‚ who are being tried as adults for their wrongdoings. Although juveniles commit heinous crimes such as robbery‚ murder‚ or even rape‚ they are not mature enough to understand what they are doing. In the article “Kids Are Kids-Until They Commit Crimes” a 12-year-old boy got sentenced life in prison after he beat a 6- year-old girl to her death (Lundstrom). The boy did not know the girl was going to die because he is not mature enough to know what
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Do people commit different acts of evil? Are all acts of evil equal or different? In current time there are different punishments for different crimes committed. If a person commits a murder then they could be put in jail for life. While another person who robbed a bank might only be in prison for ten years. If there were only one form of evil then should the punishment for all crimes be the same? The different types of evil can be caused by different reasons and lead to many different consequences
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SOLDIERS WITH PTSD THAT COMMIT CRIMES The ongoing war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan will always be a heavily debated topic from its beginning on October 7‚ 2001 with the attack on America soil on 9/11. But an ongoing war that is often ignored is the servicemen and women of those who return home from combat and suffer from psychological problems. As a Veteran of the U.S. Army myself that suffers from PTSD‚ I am disturb by the staggering reports of the number of combat veterans
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many of the people caught up in the criminal justice system are low income‚ racial and ethnic minorities‚ often forgotten by society‚” Besides juveniles‚ what other age group is experiencing unprecedented incarceration rates? Does this surprise you? Why or why not? Another age group experiencing unprecedented incarceration rates is with very elderly people. Yes‚ it surprises me very much. I was not expecting to read that at all. I guess mainly because I figured that most elderly people would have
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reasons people communicate Communication plays a crucial role in everyday life and without it there would be great difficulty to move forward and for things to get done. There are many different aspects of communication and all play an important role. Communication can be used to seek information. A person will ask someone who has more knowledge of the subject and so when they tell them the answers to their questions the person is left with more information which in turn will be passed on to someone
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Great Gatsby: The careless and selfish “Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart‚ from the belief that love is not abundant.”-Don Miguel Ruiz This quote relates to how selfishness comes from a poor heart and the belief that love is something they don’t really know about. They use it with the challenges that they face day-to-day. Another example is in the Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald he shows that wealth is used in selfish ways can make people careless. Great Gatsby set in the 1920s where
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Selfish. The food industry i so selfish. They only care about the money. They treat the workers‚ the animals and the consumers horrible. They pay the workers low wages to make more money. They feed the cows corn instead of grass to save money. Money that’s all it’s about. The food industry is cruel and selfish and they will do anything to make money. First‚ The food industry is cruel to their workers. On page 174 it says “ A typical chicken farmer has been raising the birds for 15 years‚ Owns 3
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Social control theory is‚ “The view that people commit crime when the forces binding them to society are weakened or broken” according to the textbook Criminology; The Core. “[Jeffrey] was a loner‚ who felt neglected by his family and did not fit in well with his peers‚” due to this feeling he would constantly
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