When a criminal gets sent to prison, does an amount of time, and gets let free, they are more intelligent, well-taught criminals that have the power to do whatever they please. ... Rehabilitation has the power to open up prisoners eyes to see real change in themselves. ... The key words in those two quotes that make Rideau false are "little" and "almost". ...
We should weigh the death of the convicted murders against the loss of life of his victims and the possibility of potential victims to murder " ("46 Pro Death Penalty Quotes by Attorney Generals from the U.S.A. "). ... The existence and the threat that arises from capital punishment has the power to deter crime and as a result, should be a continued practice. ...
Those who bother to reference scripture "toss in quotes from the Bible to back up what they've already decided anyway," wrote famed death-penalty foe Sister Helen Prejean. ... Nor do I believe that God invests human representatives with such power to torture and kill. " (Zorn 1) Southern Baptists overwhelmingly passed a revised statement of faith adopting a groundbreaking resolution supporting capital punishment (Halperin 20). ...
Retentionists (people for capital punishment) have long asserted the deterrent power of capital punishment as an obvious fact. ... Both quotes imply that the murderer deserves to die and it was his own fault for putting himself on death row. ...
Perhaps the magistrates in power took things too far; Possibly the law enforcers took the word of God too literally. Nevertheless Colonial Massachusetts proves to have been a place for persecution, guilty or not, and a place to affirm power and the interpretation of God's law. ...
Crime, criminality and colonialism are all intricately tied together in the Australian Indigenous context. To understand the nature of crime and criminality as it exists today one must understand the context of the history of colonialism and how it relates to both past and present crime. The underlying theme that inextricably bonds the three together is past and present law. It is the influences of British Law on Indigenous Australians post colonialism that have led to the genocide, oppression, racial discrimination, dispossession of land, high rates of incarceration and intergenerational trau...
Youth gang members are often mobilized in fights, drug trafficking activities, extortion and other illegal acts by organized crime groups in order to advance their power and wealth. ... Quoting from the police spokesperson during a press conference after the arrest, "Many youngsters are lured by small perks such as free meals or drinksSome of them are asked to be doormen at discos or to traffic drugs....
(Dean, Hardiman & Draper 1998, p. iii) Sexual violence is both a consequence of, and reinforcement of, power disparities between individuals and in society. Attitudes, beliefs, laws and other social structures which allow or support the power of one group over another, or which allow or support violence, contribute to the problem of sexual violence in society. ...
