Criminals

[TheBoulder]

Tomorrow I have an English exam. A large part of it is an essay, but instead of writing it during the exam, the teacher is letting us write a rough draft beforehand. So instead of thinking for myself, I gonna hope that you guys will.
The topic I have to write is an opinion piece on criminals, more specifically, what to do with them. While the teacher said we can write any of our opinions on criminals on this essay, she mainly wants to know if we should lock them up for a long time or give rehabilitation like community service and whatnot.
So tell me Escapists, what should we do with criminals?

EDIT: Look people, I can easily write this thing on my own, I would just rather have people tell me their thought out opinions so I can form a more personal one with different points of view. I'm not asking you to write the whole damn thing.

 

[cookyy2k]

So instead of thinking for myself, I gonna hope that you guys will.

Not the greatest way to get us to do your work for you. Try yahoo answers that's were these "I don't want to do it so can you do it for me" questions are usually to be found. Failing that go do research, I'm sure some politician or other figure has written essays/given speeches on that so go plagiarise from them.

 

[staika]

Time for the one year of college criminal justice classes to become useful. My opinion is that the system we have is good in that there are heinous a criminal is the higher up he goes on the ladder of prisons. different types of jails ranging from community service areas to super max jails and the more

Fun fact: there is a type of prison for younger criminals that is basically a boot camp and the type of criminals that go there are usually 18-25 (or something like that) and they usually are convicted on drug charges or petty theft.

 

[Limecake]

I always found essays easy to write. the way I've always done it is:

Intro: 1 Paragraph (set up the main point of your essay)
Body: 3 Paragraphs (I usually have a seperate idea/topic for each paragraph in here)
Extro: 1 Paragraph (sum up the rest of your essay into one paragraph, remember not to introduce new information at the end)

as for the body paragraph this seems tough because I always considered 'locking criminals up' counted as rehabilitation. and speaking as someone who has had to do community service in the past. It really didn't make me think over my actions, I just toughed it out till my time was up.

I guess my three paragraphs would be on:

1. Locking criminals up
2. "Rehabilitating" criminals
3. a combination of the two extremes

hope I could at least help you get the ball rolling for your own essay. Good Luck!

 

[TheIronRuler]

Tomorrow I have an English exam. A large part of it is an essay, but instead of writing it during the exam, the teacher is letting us write a rough draft beforehand. So instead of thinking for myself, I gonna hope that you guys will.
The topic I have to write is an opinion piece on criminals, more specifically, what to do with them. While the teacher said we can write any of our opinions on criminals on this essay, she mainly wants to know if we should lock them up for a long time or give rehabilitation like community service and whatnot.
So tell me Escapists, what should we do with criminals?

Write something outrageous, that'll get her attention.
If I were you I would write how the current punishment system is not working and how we should get back to the good ol' days when you punished a criminal by humiliating him and walking him around the entire village, neighborhood, town or city - and telling EVERYONE that he is a criminal.
Everybody you know will know you stole, dealt in drugs and tried to pay for sex.
Bigger crimes bear bigger humiliation, this includes whips, showcasing in the city square for all to see and throw stuff at you... etc.
For repeating offenders and grave crimes, the death penalty is given.
For rapists, they have to support the woman financially even if she preforms an abortion, and the mark of shame will carry on. The bastard child will have full rights to inheritance and cannot be left out of his will. If this isn't his first time, then chemical castration should help discourage him.
That way you don't lose workforce sitting in cells, and others watching over them.
Yay.

 

[Falconsgyre]

Well, first we should...

Oh wait, this is for school? Do your own homework, slacker.

 

[funguy2121]

Tomorrow I have an English exam. A large part of it is an essay, but instead of writing it during the exam, the teacher is letting us write a rough draft beforehand. So instead of thinking for myself, I gonna hope that you guys will.
The topic I have to write is an opinion piece on criminals, more specifically, what to do with them. While the teacher said we can write any of our opinions on criminals on this essay, she mainly wants to know if we should lock them up for a long time or give rehabilitation like community service and whatnot.
So tell me Escapists, what should we do with criminals?

We should lower their numbers to an irreducible minimum just as we do with bacteria. How? By letting them solve their own problems instead of babying them on the Escapist and letting them cheat on tests.

Please. I'm guessing this isn't AP English.

 

[balanovich]

I've got a very original idea that was very controversial on a forum.

We should use them as biological crops.
1-Harvest their blood regularly... it's always useful.
2-For the really bad one serving life sentences, harvest organs that regenerate. The liver. it can save lives. And the bone marrow. Very useful to leukemia patients.

3- Those who are condemned to die, are completely harvested. Their organs are taken one by one until there's nothing left.

 

[LongAndShort]

I've got a very original idea that was very controversial on a forum.

We should use them as biological crops.
1-Harvest their blood regularly... it's always useful.
2-For the really bad one serving life sentences, harvest organs that regenerate. The liver. it can save lives. And the bone marrow. Very useful to leukemia patients.

3- Those who are condemned to die, are completely harvested. Their organs are taken one by one until there's nothing left.

Body fat can be sucked out and used for soap and high explosives, and keeps the 'bitches' looking trim and lean. Everyone wins!

 

[klasbo]

So tell me Escapists, what should we do with criminals?

Just so you see this. I think this will give you an angle noone else has, and that has to give points for something, right?

First, listen to this podcast (Science weekly)
If you're short on time, scroll forward to 11:50. If you're really short go to 15:30.

It's about consciousness, personal responsibility, culpability, and how the "one size fits all" philosophy of prison just doesn't work. Short version: The law should estimate the risk of re-offence rather than look at the individual culpability of the offender, especially considering how not all humans "understand" the premise of why you are sent to prison.

If you have extra time and this seems like an angle you want to go with, you can watch this video.

And finally, a general essay-writing technique: Write your conclusion first (or at least plan it properly). This way you'll always have a very specific goal/point to show, and so it's much easier to stay focused while you are writing your main arguments.
Good luck!

 

[Akytalusia]

forward: this only applies to criminals engaged in crimes against humanity.

personaly i think we should establish an eye for an eye, punishment fits the crime system. murderers get death, rapists get castration, thieves get jail time, what else is there? you get the idea. no strikes either. you just reveal yourself for the rotten fruit you are, and appropriate measures are taken to ensure your dysfunction doesn't hurt anyone again.
the 'everyone gets jail time or rehabilitation' system doesn't fly with me. people don't change who they are, they only change who they project. if they're rotten, they're rotten, and the only solution is to eliminate the problem and salvage what you can.

for victimless crimes; since these crimes are only about differences of opinion and nothing more than a means of control, rather than a means to protect people, i think they shouldn't be crimes, and the goverment should find another, less oppressive way to control us rather than saying 'if you don't follow the same ethical doctrine as us, then you'll be punished.'

 

[TheMagicIndian]

"We live in a primitive time, don't we? Neither savage nor wise. Half measures of the curse of it; any rational society would either kill me or put me to some use." -Hannibal Lecter

Yea, so what if he isn't real. It's a damn good point and it makes a lot of sense to me. It sums up my feelings on this particular subject.