Essays on Crime and Punishment

In Letter From Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks out against injustice, establishing that for justice to prevail, one must oppose injustice at every turn; even if that means landing in jail. King famously proclaims that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,”…

The story the Penal Colony is written by Frank Kafka in 1914 where he tells about the injustice and the cruel system they use to punish people. The machine is called the apparatus which is use to punish and execute prisoners, the way it works…

“If you’re going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.” (Jayne Mansfield) If all felonies were to have a preset punishment, wouldn’t this be the mindset of all criminals? For the purposes of this essay, a ‘punishment’…

The concept of punishment has been around for as long as humans have roamed the earth. In the renaissance era, those guilty of public intoxication would be put in the pillory and subjected to public humiliation and abuse. Before that, in ancient Greece, one could…

There are different reasons why criminal do criminal acts. One motivation behind why individuals carry out wrongdoing is on the grounds that they need to. This can be delegated an individual settling on a poor decision throughout everyday life. It likewise can be the consequence…

             For past years, the criminal justice policy has followed quite a strict approach for awarding punishments to the convicts. However, these increased punitive measures failed to curb the criminal recidivism and rather generated a castigating system brunting the government…

In England and Wales there were 618,000 recorded ‘violence against the person’ crimes which caused injury in 2015. In 2007 the estimated prison population in England and Wales was 80,000, which means every 100,000 people 149 of those are in jail, which is a little…

It is common for individuals to look at others and whether it be subconsciously or consciously, judge, many without realizing the traits mocked in others are the same traits they themselves have. In Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Rodion Romanovitch Raskolnikov, is a student…

Youth violence, you just can’t escape it. Not a day goes by that the daily newspaper or electronic media doesn’t report a Crime by an adolescent. Sad, isn’t it? Clearly, the adolescents instead of channeling their energy into productive avenues, are participating in violent acts….

Almost any woman that has held a job has been sexually harassed by a colleague at some point or another. Harassment can result in a myriad of issues for the victim. She can experience mental and physical issues, obstacles completing tasks during the day, and…

The criminal justice system is flawed, and it is letting many people take advantage of it. One reason they can do that is a defense tactic called the criminal insanity defense. The criminal insanity defense is used in court to lesser the blame on a…

For many years now, society has accepted the need to distinguish between people charged with an offense who are responsible for their acts and those who are not. This is what we now call the insanity defense which was put in place to make that…

Introduction Since the 1990’s to now piracy on the coast of Somalia and southwest Africa has been a recurring issue. Its economic and social impacts are not comparable to anything else. This issue is not only jeopardizing the safety of cargo crew members but is…

On August 31st, 2014, the Internet was struck by a massive online leak of private photos (most of which contained nudity and other sensitive materials) from more than one hundred celebrities, such as Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence, Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton and famous pop…

When the baby’s nurse, Betty Gow went to check on baby Charlie, She discovered that he was missing. Upon the realization that the child was missing, Gow revealed the information to the parents, and the local authorities were contacted immediately and there began the search…