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New York and Capital Punishment

In eight pages capital punishment in New York is examined in terms of history, morality, statistics on crime along with the views ...

Deterrent of Capital Punishment in Texas

In six pages the use of capital punishment as a crime deterrent in Texas is discussed. There are 3 sources cited in the bibliogra...

Death Penalty Social and Philosophical Justifications

who could argue with that idea? Of course, capital punishment is an ongoing debate and one that has been around for centuries. Als...

Society's Violence and Executions

the execution I felt an extreme compulsion to shower and shower and shower again. Eventually I realized that I felt filthy because...

Deterring Crime: The Effect of Truth in Sentencing

This 5 page paper examines those elements in current literature that suggest truth in sentencing may deter crime. The writer provi...

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 ...

Psychological Aspects Of Motivation

- serves to stimulate better performance. Special populations require adapted motivational techniques in order to achieve the des...

Capital Structure of Ohio Casualty Corp

million1 this is made up of $4,336.7 debt and $1,426.4 in equity. This means that 77.3% of the company capital is debt and only 22...

Interest Rates and Capital Question

rates. However, companies within the domestic economy may seek to take their borrowing requirements elsewhere, where there are lo...

Death Penalty Debate

justice seems to supercede mercy (Budziszewski 39). This author, who is a Professor of Government and Philosophy at the University...

Capital Punishment and the Philosophy of Thurgood Marshall

This 3 page paper gives a detailed analysis of Justice Thurgood Marshall's philosophical rejection of capital punishment,w hich he...

Ultimate Punishment by Scott Turow

of "real-world effects" anyway . In other words, the penalty will not act as a deterrent if in fact murderers are oblivious to the...

Chuang Tzu and Socrates on State Obedience versus Self Interest

own life? Not all philosophers would agree with the path he ultimately chose. First, it is important to keep in mind that practi...

'Arbitrary' Capital Punishment?

in todays society, the very foundation upon which it was originally created - to dissuade deviant social behavior - has continued ...

Death Penalty Overview

favors cessation of capital punishment worldwide, but the United States has objections to this. They cite numerous reasons for th...

Capital Punishment and the Case of Sacco and Vanzetti

In six pages this paper discusses whether or not Sacco and Vanzetti were guilty of the anarchist affiliation for which they receiv...

Gender and the Death Penalty

In a paper that contains seven pages the capital punishment issue are examined in terms of gender differences with a consideration...

Discussion of the Death Penalty

In a paper consisting of seven pages the social standards that define capital punishment in America are considered in terms of whi...

John Locke and Capital Punishment

be little doubt that the crime rate is higher now, simply by virtue of the fact that the population is larger. Locke would probabl...

Aspects Of Spanking Children

punishment. Opponents, however, say that any type of hands-on striking of any force serves to send the child the wrong message ab...

Ed Koch's Take on The Death Penalty (Article Analysis)

that certain methods are barbaric and it is true, as Koch (1985) points out that the injection had been substituted. Yet, Koch (19...

The Death Penalty, Pro and Con

death penalty has a deterrent effect ("Does the Death Penalty Deter?"). Several studies argued in favor of the deterrent because ...

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...

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...

Treatment of Minorities and Correctional Policies

Clearly, not everyone is a fan of the boot camp approach to rehabilitation, with critics contending how such brutal methods do not...

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...

Analyzing the Case of Marcus Dixon

does not have a good track record in terms of sexual encounters. In defense of the verdict, Rainey (2004) notes that those who op...

U.S. Crime

publication from the University of Maryland, the authors note that one of the reasons for discrepancies in crime statistics is tha...

Analyzing Canto XIII of 'Inferno' by Dante Alighieri

souls of "the violent against themselves" (1194). To arrive at their destination, Dante and Virgil must travel across a "river of...

Why Did Constantine The Great Choose To Build His Eastern Capital Where He Did?

sea and easily fortified by land was brilliant strategy. It commanded the trade route between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea...