The court ruled that the punishment of denationalization violated the Eighth Amendment because it was a cruel and unusual punishment. (Text, 313) Later in 1977 a more clear definition was established as to what defined "cruel and unusual punishment-. ... (Textbook, 313) Five years before the court determined "proportionality analysis- of a punishment, they wrestled the question of corporal punishment, or punishment through physical force causing bodily harm. ... Corporal punishment may be used by the state in educating children to "the maintenance of group discipline-. ... In what I'v...

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Inmate population increased over time and wardens had to take measures in order to discipline the prisoners. ... He allowed lots of corporal punishment and never gave a chance to inmates. ... But in addition, a prison is reformative as well because prisons should be educational and socially adaptive (2, 3). ... His opinions for providing discipline were completely contrary to Lynds". ... Moreover, Osborne never wanted to give capital punishments such as electrocution. ...

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After publishing The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969), which described his method more explicitly, Foucault shifted to a genealogical approach influenced by Friedrich Nietzsche's critique of history that accounted for some of the deficiencies in his earlier approach.[6] In "Questions of Method, " Foucault participated in a roundtable discussion reflecting on his approach to the study of the history of the penal system in Discipline and Punish (1975). ... By tracing connections between medical knowledge, politics, economics, and religion, Foucault established a way of looking at the revolu...

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Until the nineteenth century, the aims of imprisonment were retribution and deterrence, "most crimes were dealt with by some combination of fines, corporal punishment, mutilation or death" (Scull 1977, p.18). ... Between the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries however, incarceration gradually became the predominant mode of punishment and the emphasis shifted to reform and rehabilitation as the primary aims of imprisonment (Tomasic and Dobinson 1979, p.14). ... This more rigid form of control saw surveillance and not just punishment being the objective. ... Th...

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Welton Academy screams for discipline and honors a straight-lined no nonsense, realist policy, while Keating holds close to individuality, and freedom of express. ... Fascinated, the boys take Keating's lesson to heart and see the secret Dead Poets Society as a way to seizing the day, and daringly set out to reform the group. ... Even after he receives the corporal punishment for his pretentious rebellions, he delights in bragging about it. ... Easily the leader of the Dead Poets and probably the one who honors its existence more than any of its members Neil is a perfect representation of...

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The exchange theory is based on the premise that people act according to a system of rewards or punishments. ... Regardless of family and community dependence on schools to educate, shelter, and discipline their children, most schools have difficulty playing multiple roles as educators, surrogate parents, social service, or law-enforcement agencies ( Ross, 2012). ... It reduced bullying by 50% or more, improved order, discipline, and student satisfaction, and reduced other antisocial behaviors such as vandalism, fighting, theft, drunkenness, and truancy in 42 schools (Falcon, 2004). ... Co...

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Geographic Patterns of Police Malpractice in the United States During the last thirty years a substantial number of social geographers, criminologists and experts in the regional sciences have demonstrated a growing interest in the geography crime. According to Georges (1978: 2), the geography of crime involves methods and theoretical foundations that make this research different from other approaches that study violence and corruption. The importance of this type of social science focus is that is associates the practice of anti-social relations with the spatial distribution of their negati...

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