Another downside is that it encourages violence. It reinforces the idea that violence can solve problems. ... Many organizations like the Center for Media Education (CME) have protested and lobbied to reduce the level of sex and violence on television for the sake of their children. ...
She feels that it is unfair for them to move swiftly from suspicion to violence as it violates her sense of personal justice. ... It is therefore their higher calling to use their absolute power to enforce the law with extreme prejudice. ...
Drug crimes and violence went hand in hand and so anything related to drugs had far more dire consequences in the eyes of the politicians and in turn the public interest as well. ... How he does this is via his testimony on life "Inside" Santos' book takes a somewhat ethnographic-like approach because a lot (if not all) of his work is comprised of very vivid details about the social life and the relationships of American prison systems during a time where Mass incarceration was underway (think crack epidemic, increase in violence, etc.). ... On a daily, the threat of violence ...
Morally, it is a continuation of the cycle of violence and "...degrades all who are involved in its enforcement, as well as its victim."... (Cavanagh4) Going ever farther, Bryan Stevenson, the executive director of the Montgomery based Equal Justice Initiative, has stated that " people are increasingly realizing that the more we resort to killing as a legitimate response to our frustration and anger with violence, the more violent our society becomes We could execute all three thousand people on death row, and most people would not feel any safer tomorrow."...
"Does imposition of a life-without-parole sentence on a fourteen-year-old child convicted of homicide violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments' prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments, when the extreme rarity of such sentences in practice reflects a national consensus regarding the reduced criminal culpability of young children? ... "Does such a sentence violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments when it is imposed upon a fourteen-year-old who did not personally kill the homicide victim, did not personally engage in any act of physical violence toward the victim, and was n...
