In addition, the young adults might have a chance to start a new life if they are sentenced to do the compulsory community service. ... However, when they come out, they might start robbery and murder. ... Therefore, compulsory community service sentence is more efficient than the jail sentence. ... Therefore, by doing the community service will create job opportunities for them because not many companies will hire people with a jail record. ... Otherwise, the cycle continues because the jail punishment will only teach them to try harder not to get caught. ...

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Penology Critically evaluate the prison as the central form of punishment in Britain at the start of the 21st Century. ... Essentially this essay will evaluate prisons as the central form of punishment at the start of the 21st century. ... The retributive theory looks back to the crime and punishes because of the crime. ... Instead of looking to the past and the offence committed, the sentencer must concern himself with the future needs of the offender. Thus the chosen sentence should be the one with the best chance of bringing about the desired change. ...

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Many minutes after it started it stops, a murder has taken place. ... The decision was reversed when new methods of execution were introduced and executions started again. ... With hangings a rope is wrapped around a persons neck then they are dropped from a certain height with the other end of the rope attached to something above them. ... With this method of execution a inmate is strapped to a chair along with electrodes attached all over his or her body. ... The only reasonable sentence would be life sentence. ...

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Opposing the Death Penalty The death penalty has been a controversial issue in American society for the last twenty years, starting back in 1976 during the Furman v. ... It was argued against because two of the men were sentenced to death for rape, even though other people had been given much less severe punishments for murder (Bender 35)! ... To date, no one has ever been sentenced the death penalty, executed, then discovered to be innocent (Draper 35). ... In many of these cases, the convict was proven innocent because somebody confessed to committing the crime. ... Low income people ar...

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Starting in the 1970's the Federal Government started an initiative to lock up people convicted of drug offenses and other non-violent crimes. Because of these initiatives prison populations have risen by three hundred and eighty percent. ... First, it costs the government much less money to sentence someone to house arrest rather than a prison sentence. ... Plus those sentenced to house arrest are forced to pay fees to help compensate for the costs of maintaining their house arrest. With about sixty-one percent of current inmates qualifying for house arrest in accordance with the law bef...

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In the simplest terms possible, it all comes down to the cost efficiency of sentencing to life in prison vs. death, and of course, compliance with the United States Constitution. ... Is that because they commit more crimes? ... My feelings have stumbled now not just because it's someone I know, but also because I have a different perspective of a set of events that led up to the situation. ... So what could we do with the millions of dollars we would spend on capital punishment? ... I do agree with Wolf's statement when it comes to in...

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By the mid-1900's most states started using either gas chamber or electrocution (Smith). ... That is not only because of the police force but also because serious criminals are having second thoughts about these terrible crimes because they know that they will be executed. ... On the contrary, the opposition might say that in colonial times almost half of those sentenced to death were pardoned but it was too late since the sentence had already been carried out (Posner). ... This argument is invalid because in more recent times there is DNA evidence to convict a killer with almost perfect ...

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Crime has fallen chiefly because more offenders are in prison. ... For example, to compare a two-year community sentence with a two-year prison sentence, both from the date of sentence, would reduce the post-prison reconviction rates by about 50% as only half the sentence is served. Thus the 63% reconviction rate for all males placed on a community sentence should be compared with about 29% reconviction rate for the one year in the community following a two-year custodial sentence. ... During these riots offenders often start small fires, attempt to flood the prison or vandalise their cells. ....

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These activities are harder for ex-prisoners than the average person because many prisoners have not been rehabilitated, developed skills, or obtained an education while in prison, and have not received adequate transitional services upon leaving prison. The current strategies to reduce recidivism include constructing more prisons and harsh sentencing. ... Harsh sentencing and the construction of more prisons will no longer be effective in reducing the high recidivism rate. Reentry courts, that are designed for offenders who are about to be released, will set goals for a reintegration plan b...

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Enabling is done with the very best intentions. When enabling occurs with a person who is struggling with alcohol or drug addiction, the enabler is doing more harm than good. ... Terry, my older brother, served a lengthy sentence on a drug - related charge. ... Terry is not incarcerated at this time, but he still struggles with his addictions. ... We were healthier financially, because I was not giving money to my brothers on a weekly basis. ...

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He starts off by telling a story about a man, who arranged to have his quadriplegic son and wife killed. ... Perry was sentenced to death, and Lawrence Horn was sentenced to life in prison without parole1. ... " (Page 4 line 96) he asks questions to start a debate. ... In an article in New York daily he poured his heart out, with his hate towards the form of punishment. ... He puts it as if it is worse for one to live with the sin of killing someone for the rest of his life instead of resting in peace. ...

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It is also suppose to specify if a sentence is done concurrently or consecutively, and it restricts the amount of time that a prisoner can have taken off his or her sentence. ... So in other words, if you start early you can actually get five strikes before you are put away for good. ... This quote was made from a student at Stanford and I agree with his statement. ... The three strikes law seems to have its good side because it puts away several hardcore criminals. ... And at certain times I feel that I agree with this. ...

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I agree somewhat with the fact that black people are getting harsher punishments than whites or any other race, but the way I look at it is that the offender is there because they committed a crime and they should get the punishment they deserve not extensive jail sentences because of what color they are. ... The article backed up its argument with the use of facts from past court cases of offenders plea bargaining and getting shortened jail sentences, parole, and even as small as measly fines. ... I think that the public will agree with this because of the strong use of opinionated values...

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Because Richard and Sabina were in charge of a Protestant church in Romania they were arrested several times by the Nazis. ... These arrests forced them to start an Underground Church which met secretly. ... With these beliefs they sink to unbelievable depths of cruelty." ... This time he was sentenced to 25 years in prison and his torture was even greater than his first imprisonment. ... In America he continued his missions work by starting The Voice of the Martyrs organization. ...

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Alex is sentenced to fourteen years in prison. ... At the end of the movie, he starts thinking about settling down, marrying, and having a son. ... These "outcasts" often are forced to break laws in order to survive because they cannot get jobs because of their looks. ... Ideas such as an eye for an eye, prison sentences, death and rehabilitation have been tried in various places around the world with no real answers to which one works better. ... Alex in A Clockwork Orange was given a relatively light sentence for the crimes he committed. ...

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A poorly represented defendant is much more likely convicted and sentenced to the death penalty not necessarily because he was guilty but rather because of insufficient funds. ... In Maryland, a comparison of capitol trial costs with and without the death penalty over a five-year span concluded that a capitol trial costs approximately forty - two percent more than a case resulting in a non-death sentence. ... The death penalty imposes an irreversible sentence. ... There is considerable evidence that many mistakes have been made in sentencing people to death. ... Society today works hard to pre...

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It was a truly heated debate starting with the legality of the death penalty. ... Some would say that life in prison is harsher because they have to live with themselves for the remainder of their natural life. ... In Georgia when a black kills a white twenty percent where sent to death row while when a white kills a black it is merely six percent who are sentenced to death, along with similar numbers in Florida. ... Juries are purely convicting and sentencing criminals based on the nature of their crime. ... Juries make their decisions on presented evidence with limited scientific evide...

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They feel no compulsion to going back and trying to start over, regaining people's trust and respect, of being stereotyped as a "prison rat," and spending life in a cramped chamber. Some even choose to take their own life after being sentenced to a life term. ... Many inmates will have opted for crime because they were not happy with their lives and wished for an outlet. ...

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When I first started to research this topic I thought the death penalty to be morally wrong and an injustice to the persons rights. ... As of today in Pennsylvania the only crime punishable with the death penalty is first-degree murder with eighteen aggravating circumstances. This means that in the state that we live the only way for someone to be sentenced to death is to commit and be convicted of first-degree murder with eighteen aggravating circumstances. ... All of the people I surveyed agreed with the death penalty. ... These seven said that the only crimes that minors should be sen...

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Sentencing to life in prison with a right to parole in 40 years is the harsh punishment for someone who is clearly insane. ... Because Andrea had delusions, she heard voices from outside telling her to save her kids from demons. ... A life sentence in prison for a sick person is an ignorant and irresponsible decision. ... With methods like these, why do we even have a justice system? As Molly Ivins suggested in her article that our system needs a plea of "guilty but insane-; this may be a good start to establish better justice. ...

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This was difficult, because along with the physical absence of a home, she also felt empty inside. ... For Angie, "It's not until talking to somebody, if you"re inclined to do so, that you can start to gradually unravel some of the rage and shame and sadness you experienced both as a child and an adult" (159). ... He is a man of a split personality because of his prison sentence conflicting with his life today as a free man. ... He was able to overcome his prison sentence and move on, but he tells us that he will never totally escape the fear of his prison experience. ... During the ...

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People only re-offend because when they are released they have no skills or social contacts to help them become employed, or to start their life over. ... But death road is much more stressful than any prison sentence or anything similar to it. ... It is a start of a chain reaction. ... Along with a corrupt government, capital punishment can bring mistakes. For example Jesus was sentenced wrongly to death because of public opinion. ...

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There is nothing wrong with the Death Penalty. ... I do not think that a child the age of 12 and older should get away with murder just because there so young. ... Weather someone is sentenced to life or death can depend more on their lawyer than on the crime. ... Only about 0.02% of homicide perpetrators get sentenced to death. ... Georgia', which stated Capital punishment did not violate the Eighth Amendment, executions were once started again under the states supervision. ...

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Part two starts with Meursault being interrogated by a police official. ... It is important to note that the focus of the trial was on Meursault's character rather than the crime committed, and he is sentenced to death because he does not "play the game,"" or, in other words, not conform to society's beliefs. ... The novel ends with Meursault's great epiphany. After reflecting upon the situation that he is in, he accepts his death sentence. ... He lives his life for the moment, and he accepts the moment of his death, because during his life, he lived his live by his own valu...

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There is nothing wrong with the Death Penalty. ... I do not think that a child the age of 13 and older should get away with murder just because there so young. ... Kids have a lot of power now days and some think they can get away with murder. ... Weather someone is sentenced to life or death can depend more on their lawyer than on the crime. ... Georgia', which stated Capital punishment did not violate the Eighth Amendment; executions were once started again under the states supervision. ...

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