In Peter Moskos’ article “In Lieu of Prison, Bring Back the Lash,” Moskos presents flogging as a means of decreasing prison populations. In the article, he states that “America has a prison problem,” and that this problem comes from a larger number of people being incarcerated and for a longer amount of time. The Moskos' solution to this ever increasing problem, is to bring back flogging. Penitentiaries, he says, were created to avoid corporal punishment, but the rate of crime did not decrease and the prisons began to fill very quickly. Moskos presents that the truly dangerous criminals should remain behind bars, but those who are likely to be released should be offered the choice to receive a flogging instead of incarceration.
Within the book in providing solutions such as rehabilitation that can eventually eradicate these problems that plague our society. By having a strong foundation of religion set in place it can help resolve unjust matters with the belief that morality is superior. By incorporating morality in inmates life 's and other members within the system, it enables them to lead a better life, by leaving their old ways behind. Furthermore, the book is divided into three sections which contain specific chapters catered to reducing crime and or explaining how it can be resolved. Firstly, the first section in the book is divided into chapters 1-4.
The increase in crime in the modern time has overcome its expectations; the penitentiary system has failed to uphold its values, or so it might appear. The need for reform is highly debated. In “Bring back Flogging,” published in 1997 in the Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby advocates for a transformative reform by reinstituting corporal punishment as a modern conviction. In his article, Jacoby demonstrates an elevated level of credibility by citing valuable sources, as well as introducing refutable facts with data, and successfully reaching the reader with persuasive talk. Nevertheless, his introduction and the use of irony strongly damages the rest of the arguments for the severity of the issue, thereby weakening the emotional and credible approach.
Jacoby says that those who oppose corporal punishment may argue that it is “too degrading” or “too brutal.” Jacoby mentions that, in today’s society, incarceration is “an all-purpose punishment, suitable -- or so it would seem -- for crimes violent and nonviolent.” However, Jacoby believes that it is prison that is degrading and brutal.
With his hands tied down the pole, the criminal whimpered for help, but no one cared, because all they wanted to see him be punished for the robberies he committed. He became the next to be publicly humiliated and punished with flogging instead of incarceration. Jeff Jacoby’s “Bring Back Flogging” is an intriguing piece of writing that pitches a wild idea that i am unsure is worth catching. Jacoby wrote a thorough essay and presented the idea well but did not have enough evidence to convince his audience.
Bohan Fan Whip and Cage Circuses use whip and cage to train animals like lions and bears, force them to perform for audiences. It appears that columnist for the Boston Globe, Jeff Jacoby, is in favor of using the same combination for criminals. He published an essay named “Bring Back Flogging” on the op-ed page of Boston Globe on February 20. 1997. The essay held a serious discussion of the prison system of the United States, identify it as a costly, insecure and useless. Then he suggest we should replace the system with a method that we used centuries ago-flogging, or at least at it to the list of penalties.
As I told you I wanted you to be daunted at the number of strokes coming your way, this helps ingrain the right attitude to take a flogging well in a man, he has to really stiffen his resolve and summon the best of his character as he waits for his flogging to start and you clearly did this yesterday. I 'd agree 100% that the leather Army Cat was the way to go. It feels even more manly to take than the rope Cat, probably due to the far sharper sting it imparts. I certainly was daunted by the prospect of taking 20 dozen strokes and had to keep telling myself that I 'd taken far more from the rope Cat... Taking any flogging with a Cat o ' Nine Tails should always be a daunting prospect, even for the hardest of men.
I immediately made the connection of incarceration to the idea of institutionalization, the idea of people being exploited by being reprogrammed to accept and conform to strict controls due to their environment, due to the fact that my Introduction to Legal Studies professor brought it up and it reminded me of my introduction 100-level Sociology class that I took the previous semester. Henceforth, my first approach to the project was to try and find a solution as to prevent institutionalization from even happening. However, trying to find a solution involved getting rid of areas where people had to give up control, including prisons, asylums and even the likes of some schools. Using information from the seminar alone, it was made obvious to me that in a sort of Marxism type of ideology, the country and government need the likes of prisons, mental hospitals and education-induced places for the good of the people and to benefit the economy. Going back to nonfiction book, however, I realized the solution was already found and that people were already endorsing it—rehabilitation programs to re-socialize.
Modernity now looks at the soul of the prisoner, the aim of punishment now is to study the crime and transform the criminal’s behaviour so that the criminal gets a chance to live a normal life in society again. Modernity is no longer only bothered with questions like who committed the crime, but more importantly what were the factors behind the crime? Was he of sound mind, social background? The modern penal system needs a whole set of assessing, diagnostic, prognostic, normative judgements (p-19) concerning the criminal to be done by experts (magistrates, psychiatric experts, prison officials…) to determine what would be the normal conditions for the crime. The Judge in the modern system certainly does more than judge.
Imagine someone that has been stretched out on all four limbs of their body laying there and could not move, because they were tied down. Then was chopped in half all because he or even she stole one piece of bread? It might be hard to imagine because people now days if they create a crime, they are not killed for it. There are simply fined for it or place in jail, and are not beheaded or cut in half. Torturing people back in the medieval days was entertaining for them, they enjoyed looking towards the next day where they can watch people die.
Finally, the essay will touch on the topic of the penal system, and its distribution of punishment and reform. I will argue that many of the crimes committed at this time are done out of dire necessity, and therefore
Penology is a system that a totalitarian government highly pays attention to. Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punishment traces the history of sovereign discipline and punishment from the medieval ages until the modern age in Western society. He argues that sovereign or authoritative punishment took four forms which are: torture – punishment – discipline – prison. Foucault examined the act of torturing and concluded that the public execution was ultimately an ineffective use of the body and non-economical, it also as applied non-uniformly and haphazardly. Thus, it was the antithesis of the more modern concerns of the state: order and generalization.
During the 18th century). The goal of this transformation is to support the change of people that will make them conformable with new social norms that are in the process of being established. For this purpose, new social tools had to be developed; such as: compulsory labor - working on the principle of a regular schedule, or the collection of any available information about the prisoners, which was supposed to lead to a socially useful transformation of the offender. The consequences of this historical moment are not limited just to the legal system, because together with the internal control of the offender are developing methods of the police and there is an apparatus that allows to control the offenders through an entire social field, and thus interned delinquency becomes politically and socially
Bastoy prison prioritizes rehabilitation as the primary strategy to reduce the risk of future murdering, rather than punish the murderers (Ugelvik & Dullum, 2012). This is because they believe that reducing the risk of reoffending is the most important things to do and if it is failed, what is the point of punishment. For Foucault, “the punishment were intended not to efface a crime, but to prevent its repetition.” Hence, Bastoy aims to instill the values of responsibility, trust, accountability and leadership. It is proven to be effective because the recidivism rates for Bastoy prison are just 16% compared to the rate in the U.S. which is 60% (Ugelvik & Dullum, 2012).
INTRODUCTION Prisons are established and funded by governments for incarceration of people against their will. The main purpose of the prisons is to punish criminals by taking their freedom away deliberately and eventually to return the society as rehabilitated citizens after the incarceration duration. However, the dynamics of the prison system rarely helps inmates to have a healthy rehabilitation process. All over the world, there are some activities for prisoners to spend their times efficiently.
