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Crime and Punishment of the Mentally Ill

While the insanity defense gets a considerable amount of public attention whenever it is used, fewer than 1 percent of all cases s...

Legal System Punishment and the Mentally Ill

be debated. However, returning to the consequentialist rationale, inherent in this justification of punishment is that a system ...

Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

figures, the darkness, can easily represent the turmoil within Raskolnikov. His thoughts and plans are dark and frightening, espec...

'Cruel and Unusual Punishment' and the 8th Amendment

punishment.iv It was a close vote of 4 to 3, which means that not all justices on that court believed electrocution to be cruel an...

Research Proposal on the Deterrent of Capital Punishment

example, a parent might threaten to spank a child and the fear of the spanking would have a deterrent effect. Thus, the child woul...

4 Questions on Criminal Justice

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

Ethics of Crime and Punishment

theory (which considers social factors, disorganization, control and the learning process)and the rational choice theory (which co...

Early Modern England and Perceived Correlation Between Crime and Sin

In seven pages English crime and punishment between the years 1550 and 1750 are examined in order to determine to what extent the ...

Three Arguments Regarding Capital Punishment

In seven pages this paper considers capital punishment and three arguments such as retribution, intolerable capital offenses, and ...

C.S. Lewis and Karl Menninger on How Criminals Should be Properly Punished

In nine pages this paper contrasts and compares 'The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment' by C.S. Lewis and 'The Crime of Punishment...

Cruel and Unusual Punishment

the legislation enacted with regard to punishment is concerned with the method used, not with the fact that an individual is being...

Punishment for Crime in the U.S. China, Germany, and Israel

Israels rehabilitative methods, a turn toward changing attitudes fostered in great part by public opinion and public policy. Whil...

Mental Illness/Prisons & Recidivism

inmates is due to the deinstitutionalization of psychiatric services, which began in the 1960s, as this trend resulted in the rele...

Forensic Psychiatric Nursing

endeavor. Nursing in any context requires a detailed knowledge of individual patients. Specifically, a forensic nurse will have a...

Discussion of Change Theories for Specific Field

The paper begins by briefly identifying and explaining three of the standard change theory/models. The stages of each are named. T...

Massachusetts' Polices Regarding Care of Mentally Disabled Individuals

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Medical Insurance

illnesses, for example, often encounters problems in convincing their insurance provider to provide the appropriate reimbursement ...

Patient Dignity and Concept Analysis

need for theory in accomplishing the tasks of direct patient care. There are routines and required protocols to follow, but the p...

Mentally Ill Individuals, Dreams, and the Theories of Carl Jung

account but does not negate the deep dark crevices of the mind that dreams grow in. Everyone has had a horrific nightmare a...

Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen

Adolescence is considered one of the most crucial periods of socialization because of the very pressure it places upon youth. Thr...

Motivation of Raskolnikov's in Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment

In 5 pages this paper examines what motivated Raskolnikov's 'crime' in Crime and Punishment. There is 1 source cited in the bibli...

Criminal Sentencing

Justice Statistics, 1996 was the first year State and Federal courts convicted a combined total of over 1 million adults of feloni...

Discussion of Criminal Sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and the Mentally Ill

In eight pages this paper examines the high percentage of people of color who are currently incarcerated along with those presentl...

A Worn Path by Eudora Welty

This 5 page paper argues that Phoenix Jackson, the protagonist of Eudora Welty's story A Worn Path, is mentally ill. The writer al...

Mentally Ill Suspects and Law Enforcement Officer Training

This paper examines community training programs associated with educating police officers on how to handle suspects who are mental...

Mentally Ill Individuals and Ethical Treatment

In eight pages the U.S. justice system's treatment of mentally ill individuals is discussed in terms of what should be proper ethi...

Pregnancy and Mental Illness Treatment

This paper discusses how to treat mentally ill pregnant women in a consideration of various topics in ten pages including the feta...

The Mentally Ill and Assertive Community Treatment

when not much was known about mental illness and the right way to treat it. Many medications used today were not developed at the ...

Mental Illness and the Law

In two pages insanity is defined and the ways in which the law dictates mentally ill individuals are to be treated by society are ...

The Treatment of Mentally Ill Women in the 19th Century

This 5 page paper discusses the way mentally ill women were treated in the 19th century. The writer argues that mental illness oft...