Capital Punishment Certain individuals who commit crimes do so at their own free will, and many have no doubts as to the consequences of their actions. To some, it matters not the possibility that if they are caught, there is the chance they may be executed. Sometimes the crimes committed by cer...

?I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.? Abraham Lincoln said this in 1865, but his words should not be overlooked when considering how people are punished in today's unforgiving United States. When it comes to the punishment of criminal offenders, the public is beco...

Suffering in "Crime and Punishment" The idea of suffering plays a major role and guides the reader attracting his attention throughout the entire novel "Crime and Punishment" by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Suffering is the dominant theme of this work. It twists and contorts itself in...

Certain individuals who commit crimes do so at their own free will, and many have no qualms as to the consequences of their actions. To some, it matters not the possibility that if they are caught, there is the chance they may be executed. Sometimes the crimes committed by certain persons are done...

Criminal justice in the United States is an expensive business. It is the only country in the west that routinely sentences offenders to prison terms longer than two years: 39 percent of state prisoners in 1991 had been sentenced to ten years or longer. It is also the only country in the ...

How to Raise Healthy Children Many of today's parents today still believe that it is necessary to discipline and punish children in order to raise them into healthy, good people. However, leading researchers are warning society that traditional child-rearing practices and punishment of childre...

Fyodor Dostoevski's Crime and Punishment follows the main character Raskolnikov as he attempts to prove his theories on the possibility of a "superman" having the power to transgress the law and morality because he is more "extraordinary" than the common man. Throughout his journey testing his theo...

Throughout time there has always been a certain stigma associated with lawyers; cold hearted and power hungry. Dickens does not stray far from the mold with the character of Jaggers. In the novel's first encounter with the London lawyer, he tells Pip that he is paid for his services, otherwise he w...

Although many individuals have some idea of just what the concept of "justice" means to them, one way of looking at the idea is that Justice is a means of controlling society and some of its aspects such that the "majority" remains safe. Of course, the way that this concept of justice is ...

The Civilian Verses the Military Justice System The Civilian Justice System and the Military Justice System differ in many ways. There are different factors considered in both systems based on the offense that has been committed. The comparison of the two systems is both amazing and sometimes ...

Alternatives to criminal justice system have been the growing part of the debate surrounding the theory of criminology. Shaming: In this arena of alternatives to criminal justice system, the most distinctive contribution has been John Braithwaite's theory of regenerative shaming which conjec...

Under the United States Constitution it states, that all men are created equal. Numerous, people believe that all are not equal, and all are not treated the same in today's so-called "equal" justice system. "There can be no equal justice where the kind of trial a man gets depe...

In Treatise Two of On the Genealogy of Morality, Friedrich Nietzsche discusses the origin and development of guilt, and how it stemmed from the relationship that forms between creditor and debtor when a business deal or trade is made. Nietzsche states that man has the ability to make promises; ther...

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a story about a boy without a family who teams up with a black slave and journeys down the Mississippi River in search for the slave's freedom, and the boy's independence in his escape from society. Throughout the journey down the river, Huck, who is a white bo...

Book Review: The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get PrisonJeffrey Reiman is the author of several books, including Abortion and the Ways We Value Life. His some of his other works are Critical Moral Liberalism: Theory & Practice, Justice and Modern Moral Philosophy, -- and the Poor Get Prison: Econom...

Throughout the years, people's views of sin have been changed. Today society view of sin is different than what Dante envisioned about sin at his time. During Dante's time, the worst sin that one can commit is rejecting the church. However, in the book The Inferno, Dante sees that rejecting the chu...