Morality and the Criminal Justice System

Paper Summary:

The paper discusses how the government has constructed stronger and more maximum security prisons, implemented the Three Strikes and you are Out laws and returned to the acceptance and performance of capital punishment. The paper considers that someone who commits a violent crime deserves to be punished, but asks when it become less about punishment and more about revenge? The paper maintains that it is important to provide punishment and rehabilitation to those who commit crimes, but it is even more important to maintain a sense of moral and ethical confidence. The paper contends that each case needs to be held against moral and ethical barometers to be sure that the criminal justice system does not become as cruel as those they are charged with punishing.

Outline:
Introduction
The Attempt To Fix the Problem
Morality
Politics
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Under the pressure of public demand, legislators around the country have scrambled to design solutions to the nation's crime issue. Three strikes you're out, is a law mandating if one is convicted three times for certain violent offenses that person is then sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Super maximum security prisons are prisons that for the most part, keep each inmate locked into solitary confinement 23 hours out of each day. MSNBC has gone into the super-max prisons and interviewed inmates that have been in private lockdown for 10-15 years."

Sample of Sources Used:

• COLUMN: Three strikes law takes punishment too far From: University Wire | Date: December 9, 1999 | Author: Adrian Haymond | More results for: morality three strikes
• Foreword: "separate but equal" in prison: Johnson v. California and common sense racism. From: Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology | Date: March 22, 2006 | Author: Robertson, James E. | More results for: ethics supermax prisons
• Inner peace restored for victims' families when murderer is executed.(morality of capital punishment)(Brief Article) From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: July 2, 1999 | Author: KENNEDY, EUGENE | More results for: morality capital punishment

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