Alex, at the start of the movie, is a happy 15-year-old hoodlum who delights in rape, violence, thievery, and leading Dim, Pete, and Georgie, his little gang of teenage criminals. To amuse themselves, they break in one night to a cottage in the country, where they beat up the man they find inside and brutally rape his wife. ... Alex recognizes the man as the writer he beat up and whose wife he raped, but the man does not recognize Alex, who wore a mask on that long-ago night. ... He and his friends come up with a plan to use Alex to make the repressive government look bad, they drive him to su...

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The automatic transfer law is a law stating that any juvenile who commits either murder, manslaughter, kidnapping, rape, aggravated assault, arson, or any crimes committed with a fire arm. ... The majority of the public believe that judges should lock these juvenile delinquents in jail and throw away the key. ... There is a pretty high chance that the child sent to prison will not make it out of there without having been beaten or raped. ...

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Justice can still be served even if the criminal gets to live out his life because he is going to be locked in prison for the rest his life and is that not enough? ... In California fifty percent of wrongfully convicted of rape and murder faced death or a life behind bars. ... Since 1989 the CIP has shown, "through the wide use of DNA evidence over 2,000 innocent persons convicted of rape and murder were exonerated, clearing their names in the process" (Chinn, Death Penalty Infographic). ...

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Let's say there is a trial and a person is found guilty of committing a crime such as rape. ... Another student at the Inter-American University stated: "I believe that locking up a criminal between 4 walls and have him contemplating how he ended up in jail and either feel remorse for his crime or anger because of the outcome for a lifetime until death is a far greater punishment rather than 5 seconds of pain and then lights out and feel nothing at all." ...

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Types of Repeat Offenders Different types of repeat offenses include Driving while under the influence selling and trafficking drugs, murder, and rape. ... Selling drugs is addictive also because when drug dealers get out of jail they cannot find a job so they return to the streets and to the same job they had before they were locked up. ...

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The same argument goes for arsonists - should they be burned and should rapists be raped? ... We also discussed that capital punishment can not be supported by deterrence as most murders are committed when someone is panicking or emotional, and also that re-offenders of murders can be locked away in prison, but murderers rarely re-offend. ...

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