In other words, corporal punishment may be referred to as the act of causing physical pain on a student's body as a form of punishment for a certain crime or contravention which may be at home or at school. ... Therefore, corporal punishment does not comply with the Universal Declaration Human Rights. ... The theory suggests that a child should not be spanked after each and every occurrence of a crime or transgression. The theory also urges that although the punishment should be immediate the parent or the teacher should consider the environment at which the punishment should be admin...

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At one time, laws deemed capital punishment too severe for non-violent crimes therefore the law was amended. Reforming capital punishment to exclude burglary and impose it on violent crimes is one example of an ethical issue of alternative penalties for lesser crimes. ... Prisoners are committing crimes at alarmingly higher rates and not only are rewarded in the prison system through "punishments," but now can sue because of overcrowding and deficiencies in prison health care. ... The ethical issues are cruel and unusual punishment. ... Let the crime fit the punishment every time, no...

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In the world, there is much controversy about if the capital punishment is necessary. ... Secondly, capital punishment brings the deep hurt for the criminal's families. ... In other words, their fathers or mothers should be punished for their crimes; however, their children are innocent. ... It is the fact that any law is possible to have defects; any law is difficult to cover all the aspects of crimes; and anybody is possible to have mistakes. ... Once capital punishment is executed, life can not be retrievable. ...

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Laws have long been established to punish those found guilty of crimes; in this country, one must first be found guilty for punishment to be rendered. ... Torture desecrates the essence of democracy by tearing away an individuals rights and subjecting them to cruel and unusual punishment. ...

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Today, many of these punishments may seem antiquated, but the basic scope of the protection remains the same. ... Inmates have the right to be free from sexual crimes, including sexual harassment. ... The Eighth Amendment has been the topic of much controversy mostly concerning the death penalty, but it also covers the treatment of those convicted of crimes. It is thought that the Eighth Amendment was written to eliminate torture which had been used in dealing with those convicted of crimes. ... The framers of the Constitution did not give us specific instructions on what was to be considered ...

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Levin is careful to justify torture not for punishment, but for "preventing future evils." If we cannot be certain that it will achieve its end, then it is difficult to see how this differs from punishment. ... Although it is accepted practice that violators of the law do not have the same rights as those who have not committed crimes (for example, imprisonment means that a person loses the freedom to choose where he or she lives), this is only after it has been established in a court of law that the person has in fact committed the crime. The person being tortured, Levin assures us, is a ...

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The answer seems to be the violation of human rights and the crimes that are occurring in penitentiaries without being reported or resolved. ... Of all the crimes mentioned, the most serious one in prisons is male rape. ... Rape crime inevitably leads to another problem: GANGS. ... People go to jail because the society wants to punish them, but the punishments of prison rape seem manifestly at odds with commonly accepted standards of justice (Hell Behind Bars 24). ...

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This makes it feasible for officers who do perpetrate brutality and human rights violations to abscond their punishment and replicate their offences. ... To focus on discipline is primarily punishment, not behavior change. In that case, police officers will still act the way they do towards people of our country because it is not guaranteed that the predominately punishment will change their behavior. ... At times, this strength appears to have been applied as punishment for the person's earlier verbal or corporeal resistance to an officer's command, and is not based on a current t...

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Statutory provisions in every state and territory- except Western Australia and now the Australian Capital Territory - make it a crime to unlawfully administer any poison or noxious thing, any other instrument or other means with intent to procure miscarriage. ... The crime of "unlawful abortion" may be committed by the pregnant woman herself, by the person performing the abortion, or by anyone who assists. ... In each state and territory where abortion remains an illegal act, the crime is punishable with lengthy periods of imprisonment. ... In New South Wales the punishment is ten years f...

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Moreover, punishments for committing illegal crimes are harsher for women than they are for men. ... Women face much harsher punishments for committing a crime than men do, as they are considered weak and they don't have the rights to voice their opinions. ...

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While the law is said to decrease crimes, drug issues, and overpopulation, this law must be changed because the steps the government is taking are brutal, unfair, and many Hispanics are affected by it. By punishing employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants, can reduce the flood of illegal immigrants who come to the country to find work, and therefore prevent unnecessary punishment towards innocent people. ... The fear of being detained is a powerful force that can keep immigrants from reporting abuses and crime, from seeking services when needed, and even from sending their children to ...

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This amendment states that if you are accused of a crime, you must have certain rights reserved which the courts are obliged to uphold. ... The Eighth Amendment prevents the government from imposing excessive bail or fines and says "cruel or unusual punishments,"" shall not be inflicted (Lowi & Ginsburg 2000:A15). ... Second, freedom of speech is the right for the citizen to speak his or her mind on any subject and in any point of view whether it be or not be in public opinion without punishment as long as it does not harm anyone else. ...

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First being the act of causing severe physical pain as a form of punishment or as a way to force someone to act or say something. ... In 1764, the work of Cesare Beccaria, author of On Crimes and Punishments, became so influential as to lead to the banning of judicial torture in criminal proceedings Europe. ...

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Over seventy-five countries have now abolished capital punishment for all crimes after Amnesty International convened an International Conference on the Death Penalty in Stockholm, Sweden in 1977. ... Since 1997, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights passes a resolution calling on countries that have not abolished capital punishment to establish a moratorium on executions every year. ...

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For these two are the only reasons why one man may lawfully do harm to another, which is that we call punishment. ... I doubt not but this will seem a very strange doctrine to some men; but before they condemn it, I desire them to resolve me by what right any prince or state can put to death or punish an alien for any crime he commits in their country? ... Besides the crime which consists in violating the laws, and varying from the right rule of reason, whereby a man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature and to be a noxious creature, there is co...

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" The United Nations, similarly, does not approve of torture, claiming in Article Five of their Human Rights declaration that: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.... " A third international statute, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, even classifies torture as a "crime against humanity," punishable by trial at the international court of The Hague. ...

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" The United Nations, similarly, does not approve of torture, claiming in Article Five of their Human Rights declaration that: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.... " A third international statute, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, even classifies torture as a "crime against humanity," punishable by trial at the international court of The Hague. ...

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Also, in the United States, murder is considered a horrible crime, while it is justified as an act of manhood in some cases in the Arabic World. ... In Bahrain, the rapist can avoid punishment by marrying the women he raped. ... It is important to keep in mind that that numbers displayed above only indicate the number of recorded rape crimes, not the not recorded ones. ...

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Defining gender violence as a violation of human rights is a relatively new approach to the problem. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, the global feminist social movement worked to introduce this idea to the human rights community and by the early years of the 21st century, succeeded in establishing the right to protection from gender violence as a core dimension of women's human rights. This is another example of the process described in Chapter 2, in which a social movement defines a problem and generates support from legal institutions and states. After describing how gender viol...

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