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such as George Eliot and Fyodor Dostoevsky constantly show the "complexity of the individual consciousness" and reduce it often to...

woman. She has the ability to ruin peoples lives. This gives her a great deal of power and it corrupts absolutely. As Judge Danfor...

element introduced when Utah encounters Bodhi, and is made to consider rather deeper philosophical aspects of life than the straig...

II. HOW EFFECTIVE IS PUNISHMENT IN CONTROLLING CRIME? WHY? Warehousing of prisoners is perhaps the most prevalent of all ap...

met them" (Dostoevsky 54). These figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plan...

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

The individual is paying his dues, so to speak. There has been much criticism waged against retributive justice. Why? It seems tha...

and why Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden; but Book I is concerned to a great extent with setting the scene. The ...

those codified into law ...and creating societal pressures for reform" (p. 167). Indeed, the world is changing and more attention...

III. EMPIRICAL STUDIES AGAINST SPANKING A study conducted by Landsford et al (2005) focused upon the cultural approach to s...

and unusual? According to a student, the phrase "cruel and unusual punishment may include the death penalty, torture, solitary co...

its mothers shame has come from the hand of God," and, in so doing, works upon the heart of her mother, both giving her joy and pr...

technique and what happens when there is no threat of punishment or promise of a reward (Brandenburg, 2006). When children are g...

there are also some commonalities in the way that the law has been developed and the way it is implemented. In each case the evo...

that parents have to know if they are to shape their childrens behaviors effectively, and that its possible to learn those skills ...

his position by specifying that only a certain kind of agent can qualify as a moral agent, and thus subject to the ascriptions of...

while it had briefly joined Malaysia in 1963, it would withdraw two years later to become independent again (2003) . Singapore had...

felony, the law implies that it shall be punished with death, viz., by hanging as well as forfeiture: unless the offender prays th...

growing stronger and more defiant with every passing episode. "...Homer certainly recognizes the notion of intention, and in many...

In eight pages this student posed hypothetical scenario examines the implementation of Hawaii's 'three strikes' law as it impacts ...

the problem may be with what he has been told to do--or to learn" (Kohn, 1996, p. PG). Myriad ways exist as a means by which to ...

might encompass the criminals perception of societal views if criminal activity and how that view would extend to them if they wer...

(Henry and Lanier 2). The field itself is a branch of social science, in which criminologists endeavor to better understand crime...

Theories of punishment indicate that the above is an invalid association. Certainly murder is serious, but it also - by definitio...

alarming rate. Although the crime rate in general has dropped, there is little evidence to show a direct causal relationship betwe...

fully developed, three dimensional people and they cannot be easily labeled, which is the point. Raskolnikov killed a repulsive ol...

entire character development is based on the idea that he is crucifying himself through the device of his mental anguish. He has n...

it is the job of the corrections system to punish offenders or rehabilitate them, and the two goals seem to be mutually exclusive....

This paper argues that the purpose of prison is punishment. Although some offenders go through the system and are rehabilitated, t...

feel dehumanized or disconnected from the society (Stevens, 2004). 2. Criminal Careers Land and DUnger (2010) explain that the c...