Bud Fox is tried as an adult and sentenced to 61.5 years consecutively in prison including 15 from when he was charged as a juvenile for nonviolent crimes. I feel this sentencing is extremely harsh due to the fact that he is still a minor and his 8th amendment is being violated. Bud Fox was not given a fair trial in my opinion. The judge in this case has let the victims that were impacted by Fox’s fraudulent investment operation play an emotional factor in his sentencing decision. I believe that the victims should be held responsible for making the decision to invest into Fox’s operation.
That forced a few changes in Brett’s behavior and lifestyle but in the end nothing prevailed. This next text I am about to speak about is also a very good example of institutions, where as the “prison farm” I spoke of earlier this text which is named “One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest” Directed by Milos Forman in 1975 is about a mental hospital but the man sent there ( Jack Nicholson ) finds the head nurse a lot more dangerous than the inmates themselves. Randle Patrick McMurphy ( Jack Nicholson ) thinks he can get out of doing work while in prison by pretending to be mad. His plans are rapidly backfired when he is sent a “mental asylum”. He tries to liven the place up on his arrival by playing card games and playing basketball with his fellow inmates, but the head nurse is after him at every turn.
However, Willingham states that critical thinking is not a skill that can be easily taught. He explains why thinking critically is so hard and starts with problem solving, a component of critical thinking that has been studied at length. The author illustrates with examples that students can indeed think critically when thought processes are mixed in with the subject being taught. Willingham shows us that students tend to “focus on a problem’s surface structure” and “fail to apply familiar solutions to problems that appear new.” In one example students in a math class are working on word problems. They have two different problems that require the same mathematical
It's easy for a parent to blame little Johny's behavior on that violent television show, but is that really the issue? You have to observe the issues he is surrounded by and how he grew up. If he is growing up in a bad neighborhood with violence all around him, and say his brother is in a gang. Though it could be a contributing factor, is it really television's fault? Mother Jones says that since children will see, on average, 200,000 acts of violence on televsion before they are 18 it must be television's fault.
What is Megan’s law? And how can this seven-year-old save you and your family from becoming a statistic? Megan Kanka was a seven-year-old second grader with a candid smile and pudgy cheeks, who was violently raped and killed by a known child molester who moved across the street from her family (crime.about.com/od/sex/a/megans_law.htm) along with his roommates who were also known child molesters. Back then child sex offenders could leave prison and quietly slip into the anonymity of any neighborhood without raising an eyebrow, their checkered past remaining a well guarded secret from unsuspecting neighbors (www.pennlive.com/news/express times/stories/molesters5_main bar.html).
Walter tries to push forward the question “Should youth be trialled as adults?” to make the audience consider whether it is correct to hold minors in an adult prison and fact is that the USA Justice System incarcerates more youth than any other country in the world. This was found on (eji.org.eji.com). Steve Harmon is a 16 year old boy on trial for felony murder and he gets sent to an adult prison which is what Walter is trying to get us to think about, Whether it’s fair if Steve or any other minor should be in an adult prison at 16 years of age. The quote “The best time to cry is at night” that Walter had used at the start of the novel writing in Steve’s own words from inside the adult prison is to show the audience that it is not a nice nor safe place in there. This is because Steve was pointing out that if you made a noise in there or if anyone heard you crying they would immediately put all attention onto you as they would take you as a ‘whimp’.
The judge fell right into his trap in which lead Dahmer to be on probation for five years, serve a sentence for a year in the House of Correction and Dahmer would still be able to work during the day and return to jail at night. I would have to consider Jeff Dahmer has a brilliant yet wicked psychopath. Dahmer eventually got his ways but what the judge didn’t realized is that Dahmer would continue to hunt and kill even after Dahmer’s father wrote the judge a letter pleading him not to release his son until he received proper psychiatric
Dahmer was paroled from the work release camp two months early, and he soon moved into a new apartment. Shortly thereafter, he began a string of murders that ended with his arrest in 1991 (Wikipedia, June 2009. Jeffrey Dahmer: Early Life). As early as 1989, when Jeff was facing sentencing for child molestation, Lionel felt that his "son would never be more than he seemed to be — a liar, an alcoholic, a thief, an exhibitionist, a molester of children. I could not imagine how he had become such a ruined soul... For the first time, I no longer believed that my efforts and resources alone would be enough to save my son.
Well- it is because monsters prowl the streets at all times of the day looking for ways to take our children and molest and rape them- and in worse case scenarios, kill them. Now some people will say just "throw them in jail" well as stated so in the article Pam Lougie and I quote, "Minnesota sentencing guidelines called for a seven-year or 12-year prison sentence. Instead, each defendant pleaded guilty and was sentenced to a year or less in jail and a long probation."
Abuse at such an early age can lead to aggression and violence (The New York Times, 2000). Considering all the ways the government has failed our children from crack babies, horrible public school and miserable healthcare, what is the government doing to prevent such a trend? Nothing. A child at seven years of age commits a crime and the judicial system locked him away in a detention home and takes him away from the educational arena. Then at the age of 15 they liberate him or her, to what?