Essays on Punishment

This article has been chosen because it is so controversial and divides many countries apart, whilst many countries have banned it, it is still in use in many countries. I am a citizen of Pakistan where the death penalty was re-legalized quite recently, but it has not been used correctly as there are too many...

Capital Punishment Capital punishment is a legal penalty used by twenty nine states in the United States. It is the only nation in the developed western world that applies this form of punishment regularly. People who have committed serious crimes deserving of hefty punishments are usually issued the death penalty. The widespread belief that the...

“Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God”- Martin Luther King. What is wrong and what is right is inexplicable for human society, and one of the most controversial ideas or punishment that has us asking this question is...

The infliction of any kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed (i.e., the transgression of a law or command) is referred to as Punishment. Punishment comes in various forms such as legal, capital, social, etc. It acts as a form of social control in society, as the means to punish those...

This essay will be assessing the impact of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Act 2012 (LASPO). By impact, I mean its effect, what it has achieved to the family law system and to society as a whole. Areas of reform that I think will enhance the efficiency and effect of the current...

For decades, state statistics have shown New York school systems enforce harsher punitive measures on black and Latinx students, K-12, at higher rates than their white counterparts. In the 2015-16 school year, students across the state lost 686,000 days of instruction due to suspension and summonses, frequently for minor offenses (Bryan-Gooden & Foster, 2019). Even...