A sociopath does not feel emotion towards others, and only looks out for the good of himself, which perfectly exemplifies the protagonist in this novel. The word sociopath describes a person who has little to no emotions towards people and other living things beside themselves. People may think that all sociopaths are psychotic serial killers, but that is not the case. There are many ordinary citizens who suffer from the psychological disorder. Symptoms of a sociopath are pathological lying, lack of remorse, incapacity of love, need for stimulation, lack of empathy, juvenile delinquency, unreliability, criminal or entrepreneurial versatility, and shallow emotions.
He says that the sole purpose of the academy is “to protect the department from the legal liability that could result from negligent training” (22). He explains how the academy never really did teach him anything about how to be a good officer rather. The academy is explained by one officer as “no wonder that’s how cops are out there [rude to people]. They demean us. They break us down.
In Fahrenheit 451, Bradbury emphasizes a world in which books are of little importance and forbidden. Firemen like Montag, burn books without knowing the reasoning behind it. In Bradbury's novel, education's emphasis on technology leads to a culture where people understand how things are done but never bother to wonder why things are done. Such an education discourages people from developing their creative abilities, and as the narrative points out several times, those who cannot build destroy. The result is a society where fanatical, destructive behavior, such as the firemen's book-burning, flourishes.
(Worrall & Siegal, 2012) Incapacitation theory focuses on the victim or potential victim. The rights of the offender hold little consideration. The belief is that if an offender is behind bars they cannot commit future crimes. The most severe and permanent form of incapacitation is the death penalty. Incapacitation is justified through the Deterrence Theory.
People will always do what they want to do trying not to get caught. In the book the defense attorneys were not fair with Jefferson’s trial and they were not nice either by considering him a hog. In trials in the society today people get chances and say on what they did or didn’t do to prove how they’re not guilty. In the novel an innocent black man was not treated with respect. Jefferson was treated as a poor lowlife creature.
According to Packers theory, the crime control model also leans more toward the idea that the costs associated with providing criminals “rights” are wasteful and would be better applied towards building new prisons and hiring more police officers (Packer, 1968). Under the due process model, law enforcement roles are dramatically reduced as this model leans more towards the constitutional rights of criminals and reduces the amount of officers in a given area. The attention here is put towards spending the money to rehabilitate the offenders instead of towards the hiring of more officers and building more prisons. What roles do the prosecutor and courts play? The crime control model is thought of as the “conveyor belt” of justice.
Attorney General Eric Holder says that prisons should only be to punish, deter and rehabilitate, not for the pedi crimes that people are in prison for now. Attorney General Eric Holder then talks about school to prison pipe line. He claims that it starts with reducing the crime seen by young people.
The 5 goals of contemporary sentencing are: 1) Retribution and its purpose is a just deserts perspective that emphasizes taking revenge on a criminal perpetrator or group of offenders. 2) Incapacitation and its purpose is the use of imprisonment or other means to reduce the likelihood that a particular offender will commit more crime. 3) Deterrence and its purpose is a sentencing rationale that seeks to inhibit criminal behavior through punishment or fear of punishment. General deterrence and its purpose, seeks to prevent future crimes like the one for which sentence is being imposed. Specific deterrence and its purpose, seeks to prevent a particular offender from engaging in repeat criminality.
One of the big problems with the system that they show in the movie is that it doesn’t set you up to get a job when you do get released. There is a correctional officer named Calhoun and he doesn’t teach the inmates with any respect. He needs to show the inmates a little respect for them to respect him. This is a problem because as a correctional officer he can send that person back to the prison system and make them become a worse criminal. This is the opposite of how community corrections are supposed to work.
Finally I will conclude with a critical analysis of the evidence that has been presented and interpret the results of my research. II. Structional-functional In order to fully understand the research question, one must know why prison is used as the sanction of choice for serious crimes. The Structional-Functional approach views deviance as a basic and necessary part of social organization. According to Emile Durkheim, there are four functions of deviance however only two will be discussed in this paper.