During the Elizabethan era, treason was considered as the worst crime a person could ever commit. Consequently, it was at cases of high treason when torture was strictly and heavily employed. Other heinous crimes - including robbery, rape, and manslaughter - also warranted the use of torture. The degree of torture that was applied was in accordance with the degree of the crime. Reportedly, women suffered from torture only rarely and lords and high officials were exempted from the act.
“Rape is wrong because it stands at the extreme limit of a continuum of sexual acts, from thee most committed to the least so, and the most alienating” (Goodman, 2010, p.92). Everyone strives to have a positive perspective on life despite the obstacles that may occur. One essential factor of promoting positivity is encouraging the increase of self-confidence or self-esteem. Individuals, who commit crimes such as rape, may experience things such as this. Self confidence also comes by being self directing.
“But the others were perfectly rational. They did not want to spend at least six years, maybe fifteen, appealing their sentences, only to ultimately be strapped to a gurney and injected with poison.” Life in prison means having to think about the crime you have committed. It means having your conscience eat at you for the rest of your life. You can’t escape your own thoughts. That is a true punishment; knowing you have done something wrong and genuinely regretting it.
Fairness according to Webster’s Dictionary is: Fairness is “marked by impartiality and honesty: free from self-interest, prejudice, or favoritism” Fairness, I believe, is the most important thing to consider in a voting system, after all voters do not only pursue their own political interests when they vote, they also care about fairness. To further understand what fairness entails other than just a simple definition we will apply the fairness criteria set forth by University of Alabama. There are many different criteria when dealing with fairness, but we will only consider two of them, they are as follows: The Majority Criterion, the Condorcet Criterion, and the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives Criterion. The Majority Criterion states: “Any candidate receiving a majority of first place votes should be the winner.” In other words, this means that if candidate A receives 100 first place votes, while Candidate B received 98 votes, and declaring the B the winning would be deemed
Everyone would have the guaranteed rights of fundamental liberties. The difference principle gives unequal distributions as long as they benefit the worst off (Selections from John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, Reprinted in: Manuel Velasquez, Ethics: Theory and Practice (Englewood Cliffs, N. P.139). Rawls says that for the first principle, basic liberties are important because of moral powers. He says that people need a sense of reasonable justice that can amount to agreements and they need to be able to pursue what is good. He says that for the second principle, inequalities can be permitted if everyone is better off.
Women Right to Choose Who’s right is it to choose whether or not a child is aborted? It is the woman’s body, but the child is both the man and woman’s offspring. The issue of woman’s right is one thing that should be considered. In the event that the mother was raped, if she is (for example) a 10 yr. old child or if by having the baby it would put the mother’s life in danger, then there is something that needs to be done. Forcing a woman to carry the child of a rapist simply because one believes that abortion is wrong would be infringing in on the rights of the mother.
“Date Rape” is a harsh and cruel reality in today’s world. Date rape is defined to be sexual intercourse by the victims. Date rape is when a male or female is forced into sexual intercourse or actions by an acquaintance in this case, with whom they do not know very well. Violators can use a variety of tools in order to lure a victim into engaging in sexual intercourse such as drugs, threats or even black mail. The idea of forcing sexual intercourse upon a person is a violation to one’s physical and mental entities, and can be very traumatic for the individual.
The victims are then informed that they must work to pay back the debt of travel, rent and food. The 3rd most lucrative illegal crime in the world, human trafficking is the most problematic to combat. The victims are threatened if they attempt to escape or refuse to work. Therefore, the sufferers rarely confess to being imprisoned, in fear of their family’s lives and their own ‘well-being’. 21st century slavery continues to rise in Great Britain’s underground world, simultaneously with the number of people incarcerated in a life of anguish.
Often people who hear the term date rape will dismiss the seriousness of the crime believing it was consensual because they perceive that the victim had an attraction to the person since they agreed to the date. Rape, regardless of who commits it, is a sexual assault that leaves the victim injured and traumatized. Victims of rape, especially when committed by an acquaintance, often feel a sense of responsibility for the attack and therefore seldom reports the crime to police (RAINN, 2009). Rape is defined as a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent (Webster’s Dictionary, 2012). Rape is a misunderstood crime.
Sometimes a punishment is related to your transgression, and other times it has nothing to do with it. None the less there is a common goal, and that is to deter you from breaking the rules. It really shouldn’t matter what the punishment is just as long as it brings about a desirable result. Certainly the same must be true for our criminal justice system; it’s not advantageous for us as a society for the system to be in place strictly to hold us accountable for our actions. Take the death penalty for example, it is the old eye for an eye concept, kill and be killed.