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…through equal treatment to every member in society and that is why there are strict laws with the punishment for each crime being the same. If punishments varied for two murderers who commit the exact same form of murder then one of them would be done…

…] In plan language, a defendant should be considered innocent until it can be proved that he/she is guilty. If they are accused of a crime, he/she should always have the right to defend themselves. Nobody has the right to condemn a person and punish them…

…(Dejong 12). For economic crimes the punishment given is usually a fine of sorts and a short stay in a prison. Many times the sentence should be either one or the other in a greater amount or duration. Which ever it may be this would not only save…

…SOCIAL RESPONSIBILTY FOR DEVIANT CONDUCT AND PENITENTIARY CONDITIONS Criminologists, sociologists and psychologists have studied underlying causes of crime since a long time but there are still not universally agreed-upon reasons. Most criminal…

…criminalize drugs, spend money to punish offenders who are then released back to their previous lifestyle to commit the same crimes again. Punishment does not seem to be the answer, and neither does prohibition. In the 1920s, it was believed that the Prohibition…

…that there is equal justice for every civilian in a court of law. In addition to the innocent, people who are convicted of a crime are still partially protected. The 8th Amendment protects those convicted of a crime from excessive fines, cruelty, and unfair punishment…

…it as a solution to violent crime. Granted the facts that those who are put to death are serious offenders, in reality, executions are seen as appropriate punishment for these certain criminals committing serious crimes as so the US Supreme Court and advocates…

…their "debt to society", it shall no longer be counted against him. If someone has spent ten years in prison for a crime, does he need to continue being "punished" even after his release? For how long? The rest of his life? No, jail sentences…

…, but it is not. If a criminal wants a gun, he is going to do it one way or another. The only way we can stop them is by higher punishment when a firearm is in use during a crime. <Tab/>Those of us that use firearms for the right reasons should not be the ones getting…

…continue to seek to prevent executions and to abolish capital punishment. We continue to oppose capital punishment on moral and practical, as well as on constitutional, grounds: „h Capital punishment is cruel and unusual. It is a relic of the earliest…