...For this essay, I had first failed to notice that flogging was used as a satirical example to seek out a cheap and quick alternative to our broken down system. I thought he actually wanted to bring back flogging so therefor did not think it would be a good idea to reintroduce it as a corporal punishment, but I did agree with Jacoby on his views towards prisons. After figuring this out, I had revised my whole essay and had ultimately agreed with Jacoby that not only do we have a broken down system, but we need to find a cheap and quick alternative. Before even reading his essay I knew that we had many problems with prisons today since it has been a hot topic for many years. I had even watched videos of President Obama speaking about how it was...
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...This will be a real test of my determination and mental strength, Andy. I know that the pain will be at a level far higher than my previous floggings, but I'm so fucking determined to take it like a real man and for you to be proud of what I can take. My flogging next week will also put me in a great state of mind to then lay your flogging on with the proper severity. I hope for your sake it does, if it doesn't, Captain Flog will have Staff lay at least 100 Dozen on your back. This is certainly something that the Corporal wishes to avoid! I would think he would wish to avoid any prospect of an additional flogging from the hardest flogging man in the British Army. The Corporal is going to do his very best. The prospect of taking at least 100 dozen strokes on top of the dose of the Cat that the Corporal has already taken, does not bear thinking about... After taking 100 dozen strokes, there should indeed be a torrent...
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...For the past hundreds of years, the living conditions of our society have changed dramatically. With the help of many activists, U.S. citizens have become liberated and powerful enough to stop and revise unfair and cruel institutions. For example, about a 150 years ago the Puritans used flogging as a method of punishment. It was a quick and painful punishment that instilled fear among the people. As people became more privileged with the freedom of speech many complaints had been sent to congress that it was inhumane and cruel. Therefore, they had eventually banned flogging and decided to use prison as a corporal punishment. After many years passed, in 1997, Jeff Jacoby decided to explain his thoughts towards prison in his essay “Bring Back...
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...Analysis of Argument Jeff Jacoby’s “Bring Back Flogging” Purpose, Method, and Persona • Purpose: – What is the author’s purpose? • His thesis: We should once again use flogging. – What is your purpose (for this exam)? • Dispute his argument – Jacoby’s argument is flawed. • Methods: – What are the author’s methods? • His arguments: examples, historical justifications, deductive reasoning, statistics, and so on. – What are your methods (for this exam)? • The weakness in his arguments: Find contradictions, inconsistencies, logical fallacies, false assumptions, and so on. – Statistics are misleading Purpose, Method, and Persona • Persona: – What is the author’s persona? • Is he comical, serious, academic, angry? – What is your persona (for this exam) • Formal and doubtful – Sarcasm – “Now, we offer a more enlightened, more humane way of disciplining wrongdoers: We should lock them up in cages” – is part of his persona here. Doubt the efficacy of this approach. He wants to make prisons sound less humane, but should humanity be a part of this argument? Has he left himself wide open for attack? Exam • You MUST bring a large blue book and a pen or pencil • You MAY bring – Your textbook – Your syllabus – An outline that doesn’t contain any complete sentences (except quoted material from the text) – A dictionary / thesaurus • You MAY NOT bring – A computer – A phone – A completed essay Sample Exam Question 1) Jeff Jacoby, an established...
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...countries that remain using Dark Age methods. It seems that Western culture has picked up on more civilized methods, whereas 3rd world countries rely on much more barbaric practices. One of the biggest questions in today’s society is “Who is to say what proper punishment for wrong doers is”? How can you measure what is cruel and what is proper when each country has a very different view. After taking a closer look into United States punishment for crime and other countries punishment, we can decide which is humane and which is truly cruel. It is true that most look down on the practices used by countries such as Pakistan, which still uses the method of flogging lawbreakers in public. It is not only a form of punishment for the lawbreakers but also a mass form of entertainment for the thousands of law-abiding Pakistanis. Flogging is a method of restraining the lawbreaker with shackles, stripping him to his undergarments, and letting a much larger and muscular man give the prisoner anywhere from 5 to 15 lashes with a large stave. To Western civilizations this would seem cruel and barbaric or otherwise pre-civilized. In Pakistan this is traditional punishment for citizens who break the law. In the United States people believe our methods to be much more civilized and humane than publicly humiliating and or beating lawbreakers depending on how severe the crime. Such traditions are no sign of advanced civilization in the eyes of the West. We have replaced all other methods with...
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...The New South Wales Magazine talks about the profits and punishments of convicts during 1833. If a convict who is working for their master looks to run off or neglect to work he could be brought before the justice system and sentenced to a flogging, solitary cell, or work in a chain gang on a public road. If the servant or convict did as he was asked such as Mr. Macqueen did he would receive 7 pounds of beef, 9 pounds of flour, and sometimes on good behavior a quart of milk and 2 ounces of tobacco. After long hours of work from sun up to sundown 6 days a week he would be allowed to travel to see his wife/girlfriend upon the allowance of his master until his sentence is up and can do as he pleases as a free man. Hughes talks about the system swelling in the 1830’s where more criminals were caught and processed but moved away from the harsh punishment of death and moved more towards the floggings and less harsh punishments. So as the time went on from the beginning of the first settlement to the 1830’s where they had set up towns, farms, post offices, and other important buildings crime was happening but had set more ground rules down and rules such as death was only given to more of the serious crimes and petty crimes were handled as accordingly. With the data and other historical data tends to show a...
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...had come from England but their masters were holding them in bondage. It was obvious that the slaves knew roughly what was going on, but they did not know the precise details. Another cause was the activities of the Non-Conformist Missionaries. It was felt that the teachings and preaching of these religious sects, especially the called Baptists, Wesleyan /Methodists and Moravians had the effect of producing in the minds of the slaves a belief that they could not serve both spiritual and temporal masters. St. Matthew 6:24 St. John 8: 36, I Corinthians 7:23, Galatians 3:28 The third and most immediate cause was the flogging of a female slave in the northern part of Jamaica. Her husband was forced to watch the brutal flogging. He struck the whipper. The overseer then ordered him to be arrested, but the other slaves refused. This began the chain of actions. Flogging of a slave Another cause was the influence of Sam Sharpe, a slave in Montego Bay who was able to urge the slaves to stop working on the plantations by spreading "watch words" called freedom. He could read and write. From his master's newspaper he learnt that emancipation was very near and that wage and labour would come to Jamaica. He spread the news among the slaves. Under the guise of religious group meetings in St. James, he organized a general strike during the Christmas week of 1831. Christmas day in the year of 1831 came on a Saturday. This meant that the slaves had two consecutive days off from work. They were...
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...key consistent factor in these early systems lied in use and profitability of using inmates for prison labor. In the early eras before prisons were fully established punishment for offenders were unsympathetic and brutal. Sentences of deadly, physical force contributed as the common potency for retaliation. Although fines were occasionally offered, they may have well been obligatory since corporal retribution was the norm. It was the lex talionis doctrine “the law of retaliation” (Schmalleger, 2011) which stated convicted criminals were to be punished and made to suffer, almost duplicating the assault inflicted to their victim, replicating the phrase “an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” In addition to this chastisement, public flogging and humiliation were also standard practices, but as time passed...
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...They died because they had to give the final sacraments to the dying, which caused them to get sick and die. Because of this, churches had to train new priests to replace the old ones. They began to open colleges to train these recruits quickly. Not only did the plague result in a shortage of priests, but it also resulted in a shortage old clergy. They also had to quickly train the new clergy members which resulted in inexperienced members that didn’t know what they were doing. Also, self-flogging became a regular practice for flagellants. Self- flogging is whoopping oneself to compensate for sins. They used this as a way to quickly feel God’s wrath to shorten the amount of time that people...
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...The Prisoner’s Dilemma compared and contrasted the punishments used by different countries in the world. Most of these countries believe in more cruel punishment, for example, Pakistan has beliefs in using flogging. On the other hand, America’s beliefs are different, we believe in imprisonment. The death penalty in the United States is becoming more unpopular because people believe it is barbaric. Both may have many different cultural beliefs, but we both agree that the victims should be punished for the crimes they have committed. Countries Including, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, use cruel punishments for violators of their laws. Some of their crimes automatically result in the use of stoning or scourging. Most of these punishments...
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...LEARNING UNIT: Critical Studies: Interior Design, 3rd Year. MODULE TITLE: Environmental Psychology (Psychology Of Space) SEMESTER: One TERM: One STUDENT NAME: Natasha Millar STUDENT NUMBER: 13-015 | | Environmental Psychology examines the interrelationship between environments and human effect, cognition and behaviour (Bechtel & Churchman 2002:187). The environment in which we are situated influences our behaviour and correspondingly our behaviour influences our environment (Kopec 2012:1). Using Kopec’s Cognitive, Socio-cultural and Neurobiology perspectives, I will be analysing four spaces within Section 4 of Constitution Hill, and how these environments have psychologically impacted on the prisoners by visually analysing the prison through the use of illustrations and research. The Socio-Cultural perspective explores behavioural and learning perspectives. Our daily social conditions such as status, gender norms and expectations, operate in conjunction with cultural traits such as tradition, ethnicity and our religious beliefs, in order to produce certain behaviours (Kopec 2012:5). The Cognitive behavioural theory focuses on the way in which we process information and how that information then affects our behaviour (Kopec 2012:5). This particular perspective will focus on how a prisoner gains knowledge, or becomes aware of events or objects within his environment...
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...“I’ll tell you what,” the pirate smiled. “ Pick one member of your crew to take a flogging, and I’ll spare one member of your crew for every lash they take.” “I’ll do it-” I started to say. “No, no Captain.” The pirate’s smile broadened. “That wasn’t the deal. I’m not going to break your valuable skin. Pick one. Or I’ll kill them all.” “Savage, would you mind?” I sighed. If anyone in my crew could take a flogging, it was Savage. Savage stepped forward to the pirate. “Very good Captain. Now let’s see how many lashes the boy can take.” With that I watched my strongest crew member take lash after lash, saving my crew. The sound of the whip cracking on his back was almost more than I could bear, but I stood strong. After each lash, the pirate pointed to one of my crew and put them on the other side of the ship, indicating that they were safe. Miraculously, Savage managed to survive enough lashes to save every one of my crew. “How did you survive all of those lashes? I whipped you thirty-five times,” The pirate’s eyes were wide and then narrowed into a dirty look....
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...on the fixed punishments, because here the contradictions between Islamic criminal law and Western-type penal law are glaring. The punishments such as amputation of limbs and stoning to death, which go directly back to the sacred texts of Islam, are in conflict with present-day principles of legal punishment, such as the inadmissibility of corporal punishment, nowadays accepted both in the Islamic world and the West. Islamic criminal law, and especially the law ofh.ud¯ ud, has a highly symbolic value and its introduction is regarded by many Muslims as the litmus test for a real Islamisation of the legal system. The Nimeiri regime in the Sudan, for instance, introduced flogging as a possible punishment for all offences mentioned in the Penal Code. The spectacle of public executions,amputations and floggings symbolises the supreme power of the regime and the futility of resistance against it.(CONCLUSION) The second reason why adopting Islamic criminal law might be attractive for a regime is that the way homicide is tried under Islamic criminal law is closer to the sense of justice of large parts of the population in the Islamic world. As we saw, legal proceedings for...
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...upon his or her family. When the introduction of Lex talionis was presented it was like everyone became vigilante. Lex talionis was known for mean “an eye for and eye or a tooth for a tooth, this from of justice was when the government decide to take control and own the crimes committed. The governments become the only organization to deliver justice for the family and victim of criminal acts. In the beginning Lex talionis was only applied to slaves and the lower class people, but as time passed the punishment became the most dominant from of justice even till today. Punishment was not limited to physical or psychological during the early historical period, but the government only experienced accoutrements for a very short time frame. Floggings also know as whipping was adopted by the Dutch,...
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...The Black Death pandemic swept across Europe in the mid-14th century. The disease was caused by a bacteria called Yersinia pestis and it was transported by rats carrying infected fleas. When 12 Genoese trading ships docked at a Sicilian port of Messina in October 1347 the sailors aboard were all gravely ill or dead. From there the plague hit hard and fast travelling from person to person, and killing about half the population in a span of 4 years. With so many dead and dying, hostility, confusion, greed, remorse, and abuse erupted. People believed God sent the plague as divine punishment- retribution for their sins. This made some Christians more devout while some believed that in order to win God’s forgiveness they need to purge their communities...
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