Discipline or Punishment – Which do you prefer? A Question of Juvenile Offenders in prison By: Shakira S. Scarborough SOC120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility (GSG1150I Professor James Slack Abstract Raising children is a difficult task. It does not get easier as they become older. Nonetheless‚ juvenile children should not be punished in the same manner as adults. By means of religious journals‚ a report from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania‚ and statistics‚ I am able
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Running head: PUNISHMENT OR REHABILITATION? Punishment or Rehabilitation? Tanisha Denson-Hodge University of Phoenix - Online Survey of Justice and Security CJA 500 Mark McCoy‚ Ed. D Nov 18‚ 2006 Abstract The debate between punishment and rehabilitation for criminal offenders has been an ongoing issue for many years. What is the true focus of our criminal justice system today? Some argue that it is to punish those that choose to disobey the laws of the land and indulge in criminal
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"Should corporal punishment by parents be banned" is always an arguable topic since there are both supporters and people who are against corporal punishment. Corporal punishment includes pinching‚ hitting or beating with a ruler or stick. Recently‚ there were some extreme cases of corporal punishment. A drunken father hit his son and commanded him to walk on the street naked since he was so naughty. Besides‚ a single mother hurt her daughter with a knife because her daughter did not finish her
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March 14/11 Tommy Douglas’ “Capital Punishment” focuses on the negatives aspects of the death sentence in Canada. “I am in favour of the motion to abolish capital punishment and I am also supporting the amendment to put it on a five-year trial basis” (Tommy Douglas 558). Being a person who lives abroad in the public with millions of others‚ I must say I disagree with Douglas’ argument as to abolishing the punishment‚ as I feel having capital punishment would indefinitely reduce the murder rate
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Elizabethan England was split into 2 classes; the upper class (nobility) and everyone else. Punishment would vary according to the class. The Upper class were well educated‚ wealthy and associated with royalty and high members of the clergy. They would become involved in political schemes and therefore the nobility could become involved in crime which were not shared by other people. The most common crimes were: -high treason -blasphemy -sedition -spying -rebellion -murder -witchcraft
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Punishment In Plato’s The Republic‚ Socrates has many conversations with people in order to further understand concepts such as justice and the way things are ideally supposed to be done. When I think about justice the definition that comes to mind is: the administration of a just action because of an unjust or immoral act being done by a human or group of humans. The issue of proper punishment has also been discussed in those conversations with Socrates and his peers. There must be a punishment
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Capital Punishment Many positions can be defended when debating the issue of capital punishment. In Jonathan Glover’s essay "Executions‚" he maintains that there are three views that a person may have in regard to capital punishment: the retributivist‚ the absolutist‚ and the utilitarian. Although Glover recognizes that both statistical and intuitive evidence cannot validate the benefits of capital punishment‚ he can be considered a utilitarian because he believes that social usefulness is
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Crime and Punishment Notebook Book 1 Pg 1-“He had become so completely absorbed in himself‚ and isolated from his fellows that he dreaded meeting‚ not only his landlady‚ but any one at all.” This quote‚ having been said so early on‚ really displays how isolated Raskolnikov is from everyone else in his life. He seems to live in some kind of “dread” of human interaction and appears to only really need himself. Pg 4- “He was positively going now for a “rehearsal” of his project‚ and at every
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The death penalty has been around for many centuries and will probably be around for many to come. Although some citizens feel capital punishment is ethically wrong‚ it is necessary in today ’s society for various reasons. Society must be kept safe from the barbaric acts of murders and rapist‚ by taking away their lives to function and perform in our society. Most criminals don ’t take into account the results of their actions. If a person intending to commit a crime‚ sees another criminal put to
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What is the role of punishment in inculcating discipline in children today? Well‚ to begin with‚ it is perhaps a good idea to spend some time pondering the differences in the meaning and implication of each of these terms. Although punishment and discipline are often used interchangeably‚ in reality they are two very different concepts. As Meera Marathe‚ a retired school teacher and now a guest faculty at IIIT‚ Hyderabad‚ puts it‚ “Discipline isn’t related to punishment except in the common social
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