Immanual Kant, a German philosopher considered to be a central figure of modern philosophy, said, "a society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else's life is simply immoral," (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). ... Professor Austin Sarart, and a team of undergrad researchers concluded this in their recent publication; "3% of All Executions Since 1900 were Botched-Amherst Study Finds....
Moreover, regardless of the possibility that a few studies with respect to prevention are uncertain, that is simply because capital punishment is infrequently utilized and takes years before an execution is really conveyed out. ...
His philosophies are that children tend to learn better when they are playing instead of just being instructed. ... How Do Former Juvenile Delinquents Describe Their Educational Experiences: A Case Study? ... Seven out of eight cases in the study expressed that had a negative day to day experience in the school. ... However, the study did present evidence that when given the positive social attention and academic successes is achievable by all students....
Although this dire prediction never materialized, the more punitive philosophy of the criminal justice system filtered down to the juvenile justice system and ushered in significant changes in policies and procedures for handling juvenile offenders. ... At the same time, evaluations of correctional interventions during the rehabilitative period claimed that "nothing works " (Lipton, Martinson, & Wilks, 1975; Martinson, 1974) and cast a negative shadow over therapeutic criminal and juvenile justice policy and practice (Tonry, 2004; Garland, 2001) and a new "just deserts " philosophy emerged. .....
Stephen Nathanson, a professor of philosophy at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois addressed the problems of discrimination and unpredictability best by saying, "as long as racial, class, religious, and economic bias continue to be important determinants of who is executed, the death penalty will continue to create and perpetuate injustice" (Nathanson 346). ... In 1987, there was a study conducted by Hugo Bedau and Michael Radelet that appeared in the Standford Law Review that was concerning the execution of innocent people. The study concluded that in a period of eighty years f...
Professor of philosophy Jeffrey Reiman contends, "A focus on street crimes is little more than a cover-up for more serious crimes such as pollution, medical malpractice, and dangerous working conditions that go uncorrected". ... We report only what others have studied and white- collar crime is just now starting to emerge as a subject that needs studying, the information on it is limited and just because we do not hear about white- collar crime does not mean they do not happen and that they are not important or serious. ...
Armed with the right to free speech afforded by the new democracy, and infused with a "revolutionary spirit" as well as the philosophies of the European Enlightenment, some Americans began to question whether government should have the power to end a life - even the life of a convicted criminal." ... Justice Stewart stated, "Although some of the studies suggest that the death penalty may not function as a significantly greater deterrent than lesser penalties, there is no convincing empirical evidence supporting or refuting this view. ... In fact, Thomas Upham, a nineteenth-century Congrega...
However, an equally apt argument can be formulated using Utilitarianism and Kantian moral philosophy to argue against the punishing juveniles as adults. ... Similarly, Jeffrey Fagan, director for the Center for Violence Research and Presentation at Columbia University, in a study of fifteen and sixteen-year-old felons found that minors tried in adult courts had higher rates of recidivism than those tried in juvenile courts for similar crimes (Anonymous 2). ...
