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Sonya Marmeladov, a young woman who has prostituted herself in order to support her parents. While Sonya suffers physically becaus...

pays to define spanking. What is it exactly? How does one determine whether or not a spanking is an acceptable punishment or abuse...

first released, but since its debut it has grown in popularity until it is now generally considered one of the greatest films of a...

row inmates, it performs its most solemn duty. However, if the state makes a mistake, there is no possible way it can rectify its ...

children misbehave, or even if they break the law. Literature Review -- Parental Influence on Children Though parental li...

The purpose of Bjerks (2007) article entitled Guilt Shall Not Escape or Innocence Suffer? The Limits of Plea Bargaining When Defen...

The death penalty, as controversial as it may be, should be valid option in todays criminal justice system. Unless such a radical...

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

Human interaction varies in accordance with a number of factors. Not surprisingly, this interaction is one of the favorite subjec...

by electric chair, hanging, and shooting squad seem quite morbid! Those, however, have been the primary means that have been used...

also appear to be constantly fueling the social problem of illegal drug use and drug-based criminal behaviors. In essence, the s...

public proprietary facilities have been utilized as a means by which to house the additional inmates. Six of these facilities are...

and unusual punishment for the general population), it can be argued that it can in fact be applied to juvenile offender populatio...

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

were obscene, food was atrocious, inmates wore what they wanted and they were unkempt; the cells were a mess and there were consta...

generally perceived as a human rights violation (Grant 1998). During the last decade, however, there has been a growing internatio...

many deem as unfair funding taken from other more socially important programs like schooling and welfare, has found itself embroil...

prior to its implementation. The crime must have been extremely egregious to warrant the ultimate penalty. An important point is...

Sciences reviewed all the existing research on deterrence and concluded that the evidence did not answer the question one way or t...

Criminologists, sociologists, and even psychologists often agree that specific factors in the lives of an individual determine the...

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

eighty percent rate that is currently representative of juvenile re-arrest in this country, only sixty percent find their way back...

be the case. This is because they want justice for their loved one. They do not want to see a murderer enjoy even another hour of ...

serve as a catalyst. It is because of Zossimovs prying and prodding that the reader is able to understand what is going on inside ...

laws would make people "criminals" for activities that they consider to be normal, while simultaneously increasing the need for se...

tries to conceal his guilt before hes forced to acknowledge it or go insane (fortunately for him, the love of a good woman "saves"...

at first but find increasing happiness and fulfillment as their relationship deepens over time. The desperation and despair of one...

During the 1970s, the case of Furman vs. Georgia pretty much wiped out the constitutionality of capital punishment when the Suprem...

perhaps the most prevalent of all approaches to criminal punishment utilized in the United States, the nation that holds the dubio...

who were incarcerated at the San Francisco County jail showed a marked increase for MRSA in recent years.-- going from 29 percent ...