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…minimums make these sentences a strong deterrent for possession or sale of drugs. These programs also work to achieve goals of incarceration, including punishment of the convicted, keeping released convicts from committing more crimes, as well as the deterrence…

…. Murderers in the United Stated receive too little of a punishment when they kill another human being. Reinstating the death penalty has hardly deterred criminals. This is because of the easy sentences that criminals can receive after they murder another human…

…and murder are not equal crimes. If a thief is to be punished with death, he may as well kill the victim, as the punishment will be the same. Raphael feels that death is a harsh result for theft, however, reality says that it is law, and to convince parliament…

…. For example, a man was thrown in jail because he stole a loaf of beard. Yes, stealing is a crime, and yes he should be punished for it, but then again, maybe the man was starving to death and that he only stole, not because he wanted to, but because he needed…

…, as punishment for his attack on Thebes. Antig e decides she must bury the body.         If Antigone is the protagonist of this play, then the action is a further saga in the chapter of Oedipus. Oedipus and his family are doomed for his sin against the gods…

…" law and the deterrent theory. People advocating for three-strike law use deterrence theory, and argue "if we make the punishment for crime more unpleasant, fewer people will commit crime." Criminal law and criminal justice system have some general…

…punishment is the best defense against rising crime", but we know deterrence doesn't work (Katz, Jesse). Telling someone that he or she will go to jail for the rest of his or her life if they commit a certain crime won't deter these individuals from committing…

…For many years torture has been practiced in nations worldwide. Despite the fact that torture is the most horrible and unacceptable form of punishment many nations still torture people. It may seem that all kinds of organizations and especially united…

…Computer crime has increased in resent years. The book gives several examples of past computer crimes. Before reading chapter 2 I thought that computer crimes only involved crimes that where associated with hacks. But I learned that a computer…

…In this book the prison was built for all the sinners in the town. It was a symbol of punishment to the people. It was made of cold stone wall and it was right in the middle of the quiet town. It also represented crime because of all…