'crime' and ' punishement' achieves social cohesion or social exclusion?\n\n \n'social ties'...sustain civil socity. Their 'loosening', 'weakening' or 'breaking' threatens not only society but also the individual within those bonds. Without their protection, she is at risk of falling from civil society into amorphous mass of criminals. She is at risk of becoming an outlaw, excluded by necessity from the community.\nAlison Young, Imagining Crime 1996
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If somebody wants to commit a crime, The punishment is a detterent to prevent such a move. I agree with you that there is no guarantee that after serving the required sentence, s/he will be a reformed person.Definitely, s/he feels isolated socially but we can,t let him go scot free otherwise more and more people feel inclined to indulge in such activities.
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This is the typical problem with most if not all third word countaries.Corruption and no law and order and personal safty. My friend you have two choices either start movement with other concened citizens and change things in the society.or apply for immigration to more civilized countaries. yes you have one more choice follow what other people are doing.
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It is a deterrent.\n\nor\n\nIt is cheaper than keeping those folks in prison for life\n\nor\n\nEye-for-eye, they should 'pay' for their crime with something equal like their life.
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I have to agree with jannie you should be doing your own homework.  How else are you going to learn anything?\n\nThat being said:\n\n1.  External constraints cannot imprison someone whose spirit and thoughts are free. \n\n2. In this novel, Winnie Foster learns the importance of the life cycle and that it has a natural beauty and balance; that it should not be disturbed by human greed.  Tuck said "Good girl" because Winnie decided not to drink the water but to live her life as it was meant to be lived and to come it's natural conclusion.
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I too am an online criminal justce student. I just finished criminology and did studies of social theories. I am not sure it this is what you are looking for but to me social engineering is using your political and finaincial powers to make reform to the system. This is done by thrusting the people in powers morals and values upon the rest of the country. To me it is the rich against the poor. If I were you, I would look at the Wikipedia site. This is where I have found a great deal of valuable informaiton throughout my classes. en.wikipedia.com I hope this is somewhat helpful!
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do you mean disorderly conduct?\nYes, any time you have been arrested, it is for a criminal offense.\nNobody gets arrested for orderly conduct, or being a great friend.
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There are several states that allow for civil committments, but often the requirements for the person to qualify are higher than you might think.  In other words, it is not just anyoen but the "one time offender".\n\nPersonally, I think they both play a role in protecting society because often times those one time offenders are actually more than that, they were just only caught the one time.  I do however think that the public registries should have a scale to determine who is posted so that more violent offenders are desribed as such.\n\nThe cost of civil committments, both in the court system - because very few AGREE to it - and the cost of the committment make the registry the most practical in my book.
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Keeping gangs housed togather allows gangs to easily establish game plans for corruption. Do you think that the violence stops in the prison, if you do, then you haven't worked in one. Extortion, prostitution, drugs and assaults are just some of the reasons gangs exist in the prison system. If they are all housed in the same unit then the synergy would be so great that each gang would have a tremendous amount of power. To the little guy who goes in for some bounced check would most likely end up serving an additional 20 years plus for killing someone and if he doesn't then he will be killed. Now he is stuck in the system. \n\nI see this all to often without separation. Random housing is the best way to house inmates.
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Age old question.  An eye for an eye.  It's the final way we have as a society of saying to those who commit murder that we will not tolerate the behaviour.  Unfortunately, jail and the death penalty do not seem to be a deterrent to those who commit the crimes - otherwise we'd have empty prisons and no such thing as death row.
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I am a professional writer. Whatever you do, please, PLEASE don't take the adivice of the first poster and quote out of a dictionary. This is such a horrible, cliché, overused bit of rubbish that your teacher will be instantly annoyed. Trust me. \n\nYou might try considering that "violence" is anything that interferes with another persons feeling of safety or ability to move freely in the world. With that definition, hate speech can be considered violent, restrictive laws can be considered a form of violence...this will leave you with a great deal of space in which to discuss what constitutes "crime" to discuss definitions of the word that don't necessarily involve inflicting physical damage. \n\nFor example, invading someone's personal space by getting three inches from them and shouting obscenities at them, is likely to be considered a violent act, even if the person being "violated" is never physically touched.  \n\nI'm not sure what your teacher means by a "unifying example or analogy." Perhaps only that you provide an example to prove that your definition IS the definition of violence. \n\nMost likely s/he wants you to think for yourself anyway. That is, you are probably supposed to come up with your OWN definition of what you consider violent and then use statements to support your conclusion. Consulting Webster is probably not what she had in mind.
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I hear what you're saying but there are certain factors that are taken into consideration when a defendant is being sentenced such as if this is a first offence or a first time offence for a crime of this nature and any mitigation put on behalf of the defendant. \n\nThese factors can result in a 'lenient' sentence.\n\nI also think these youths that are now walking around with pit bull terriers are pretty worrying, looks like they wouldn't think twice to set it upon you should they feel the need to.
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This is a very tough question to answer (as the movie also points out  with the on-the-street interviews at the end).  On one hand, society as a whole would be "safer" with fewer "bad" people on the streets.  On the other hand, vigilante justice can make the same mistakes that the justice system as a whole makes (letting the guilty go free and/or punishing the innocent).  So then the question becomes, are the vigilantes also "bad" people, and if so, who is going to punish them?  To me, vigilante justice is very romanticized... it makes a great movie, but would you want to live with the consequences in reality?
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A law makes no specification about whether others are present, and so the law has been "broken." I like to use a sociologist's point of view, so I would say that a law is just a very formal norm; as such, since you are not really acting in society, I would say that the law really has no bearing. You could argue that learned behavior should generalize to when you are alone, but this does not have to be the case.
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Taxpayers pay for jail, but jail has repercussions beyond the legal sense.  If you hold a job, most places of employment automatically terminate arraigned citizens.  Loans and bank accounts requiring credit often default when you are found guilty of a felony crime.  And security firms report on your background check that jail time has been spent, affecting future jobs, taxes, financial decisions on your behalf, housing and in some states marriage.\n\nNot to mention that society is taking time away from your life.  You are paying in time that could be used for much better things.  And you will never get it back.\n\nThis 'opportunity cost' is what is being referred to as owing Society.  If you have a spouse or kids, you can't be in their life.  You can't be there for your family, your friends, or loved ones.  You lose out on business decisions if you run a business, or decisions on your stocks if you play the market.  You can't experience freedom.\n\nAnd freedom isn't being able to do what you want to do, but being able to do what you must do.  People have a lot to take care of in their lives.\n\n(Note to the answerer above: There are intelligent people who commit crimes, too.  "There is no better a measure of a society than the condition of it's inmates." - Fyodor Dostoevsky.  Criminals aren't a type of people.  Being a criminal is a status, just not a pleasant or desirable one.  Too many people have forgotten that in this world.)
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This is an interesting question in light of the laws that punish some people more severely than others because of their opinion, even when committing exactly the same act. I am referring to "Hate Crime" laws that enhance a criminal offense because of the person's opinion/rationale for committing the crime. So, if one person kills another person because he hates that person’s ethnicity or religious views then he will receive a harsher punishment than another guy who kills without hate, simply because he enjoys killing. The point is, you may be entitled to your own opinion, but you will be punished for your thoughts and NOT just the act.
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It's interesting that in the U.K., defending oneself against a violent crime is a crime itself.  The government goes lightly against criminals, while offering counseling for those who've been victims of crime.
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Damien has it but I'll elaborate a bit. It specifically refers to the "thin blue line" (the police) which separates us (the public) from them (the criminals). It's basically supposed to demarcate the protective barrier between the criminals and their victims.\n\nMy only problem with this colourful depiction is this: What happens when the police behave in criminal fashion against members of the public? Who protects us then, eh?