Punishment is necessary in some aspects. It prevents people from committing any form of crime. ... Punishment in school is necessary to discipline students. ... Punishment is necessary for several crimes like, armed robberies, murder, kidnapping and drug trafficking; punishment for such kind of offences is not only to be fined or reprimanded but to pay by death penalty. If criminals committing these crimes are not punished, then it will be hard to keep law and order in a country. ...

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They do not explain adequately the benefit of punishment for society, and they are silent on the relationship of the victim to the practice of punishment. ... He claims, in fact, that denunciation of the crime is not a justification for punishment. ... It has the socially beneficial aim of deterring crime. ... When a crime is committed, though, the victim and community react with feelings of extreme disapproval which they want both to express and to communicate to the criminal. ... From the community's perspective as a stakeholder, the sentence may communicate specific and general dete...

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For this paper I chose to write about Durkheim's "The Normality of Crime" and his overall views on crime and deviance. ... Recognition and punishment of crimes is, in effect, the very reaffirmation of the laws and moral boundaries of a society. The existence of laws and the strength of the laws are upheld by members of a society when violations are recognized, discussed, and dealt with either by legal punishment (jail, fines, execution) or by social punishment (shame, exile). ... The point being that what constitutes a crime is not necessarily its rightness or wrongness but whether it ...

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Classical school deals with the crime using punishments and deterrence actions. ... The founders of the classical school, Beccaria and Bentham, were theorists on crime and punishment developments. ... They thought that if the punishment was certain and swift, people wouldn't commit the crimes. According to Beccaria, crimes occur when the potential pleasure and rewards from illegal acts outweigh the pains of punishments. ... The classical school's idea of "let the punishment fit the crime " has been the backbone of the united states system sentencing rubric....

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His work has a great influence on the contemporary thinking about the nature of crime and punishment. ... - Sufficient punishment is an attractive choice to prevent crime. Finally, the Classical School of Criminology stresses that the punishment should fit the crime committed. Later on Beccaria was attacked for being too harsh in the suggestion for punishment to fit the crime regardless of the condition and age of the perpetrator. ... - To seek punishment in order to shake off the sense of conscious and uncon...

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Throughout the history of civilisation the enduring problem of crime has bought with it huge social and economic problems. In order for a psychologist to understand the root causes of criminal behaviour it is necessary to investigate the definition of a crime. ... Roe (2003) classifies a crime as "a wrong against a state, either by commission or omission, regarded by that body as a criminal and one to which a punishment has been attached". ... If the superego is weak and the id is strong, a person will seek physical pleasure, undeterred by the threat of punishment dictated by parents and so...

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It is also referred to as capital punishment as it is executed by the governmental authorities where a serious of unforgivable crime such as rape, murder, and other illegal crimes that occur. Around one-third of the world countries allow the use of this act of punishment in their states including the United States, China, Iran, Iraq, and others. On the contrary, there are several countries that do not permit the death penalty in any of their states as taking it to be an unethical and inappropriate form of punishment. ... This is the main reason why viewers think that this is what actually happ...

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The purpose of this essay is to look at how the media is a source of 'knowledge' to present crime and victimisation and how the media invokes 'moral panics' about crime and lawless behaviour. There are a number of individuals who think when a person commits a crime they are punished for that crime. However, there is more to crime than just punishment. ... Society's perception of victims, criminals, deviants and punishment is influenced by their portrayal in the mass media. ... Whilst crime is generally newsworthy, it is a range and combination of various 'news va...

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Different types of behaviors are amazing to learn about, mainly the behavior therapy, collective behavior, crime and punishment, and Social behavior and peer acceptance in children. ... Crime and Punishment Psychologists have approached the task of explaining delinquent behavior by examining in particular the processes by which behavior and restraints on behavior are learned. (MSN behaviorism Search/crime and punishment) Criminality is seen to result from the failure of the superego, as a consequence either of its incompletes development or of unusually strong instinctual drives. ... Behavior ...

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Differential reinforcement is characterized as either reinforcements or punishments of a given behavior. Reinforcements of a behavior will cause an individual to repeat that behavior and punishments will do the opposite. ... Higgins, tests a somewhat new and foreign area of crime: cyber crime. ... This leads to a sense that digital piracy is a "victimless crime.... The first hypothesis Higgins and Morris's tested was confirmed: social learning theory is a universal theory of crime, for it has measured street crime adequately and it is now proven applicable to cyber crime. ...

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I agree with Wilbert Rideau's argument that prisons have minimal impact on preventing crime. ... Crime is the way they live and a survival strategy for them. ... The treatment that these criminals really need is getting educated, having a job, a stable home and family that help them connect to the society instead of severe punishment and treatment from prisons that ban and isolate them from the rest of the world. ... Is the society waiting for them to commit crimes to get themselves locked up in treatment? ... Prisons are very necessary and they should also work hard to deal with after c...

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Hans Eysenck created a theory about personality links to crime. ... Durkheim believed that crime was an inescapable fact of society and advocated maintaining crime within rational boundaries. ... Crime will rise in situations of high diverse labor unions. ... You may not understand this but crime is a necessity for a community to survive. ... The punishments put forth by the governing body to the offenders will set the boundary for the people not committing crime on a daily basis. ...

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When addressing such a wide societal issue such as criminal behavior, one needs to think outside the box, and think more theoretically about the different institutions and structures that are involved and connected to personal crimes of deviance. ... There are a lot of different ways punishment can be looked at through a sociological or criminological viewpoint. ... One cannot simply create a theory exclusively looking at the punishment aspect. ... In Garlands (1990), Punishment as a Social Institution, he uses his sociological imagination and theoretically thinking to examine the penal system...

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Unfortunately, Socrates was convicted of these crimes and sentenced to drink poison, and died. ... In middle-eastern culture freedom, individuality, and religious beliefs are extremely limited, if not, totally eliminated and therefore any type of threat or challenge can be dealt with severs punishment. ...

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A study that took place in the 1960s found that the best predictor of criminal behavior in children was whether they had parents who had been convicted of a crime (Todd, 1996). ... Ex: A child might choose to skip school to avoid taking a test; this situation would result in punishment from the child's parents so that the child understands what behaviors will or will not be tolerated. ... Though Marx spoke little of deviance, his ideas created the foundation for conflict theorists who study the intersection of deviance and crime with wealth and power (OpenStax College, 2015). ...

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"The aim of the book is to attempt to treat the facts of the moral life according to the method of the positive sciences" ( Durkheim 1933, cited in Bierstedt 1966 ). According to what the French sociologist Emile Durkheim (1858 - 1917) says in his masterpiece, "The Division of Labour," sociology mus...

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Because each caste has specific guidelines that they must accept and pursue, punishment, while the severity depends on the crime or misuse of rules, is given out, as similar to everywhere else in the world. ...

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Marx insisted that stratification would occur soon thereafter when "by talent, crime, or good fortune, some acquire more and better private property while others are left with virtually nothing" (130)*. ... Marx analysed religious rhetoric: The social principles of Christianity preach the necessity of a ruling and an oppressed class, [...] declare all vile acts of the oppressors against the oppressed to be either the just punishment of original sin and other sins or trials that the Lord in his infinite wisdom imposes on those redeemed. [...] preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submiss...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive and ideological apparatus, is thus to be considered as well. In order to clarify our perspective on the problem, it is also important to note that violence against women is to be considered as being essentially related to the more general problems of women's oppression. So instead of conceptually...

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