Assignment:
Recently, some courts and some judges have ordered punishments that “shame” defendants as a result of the crimes these defendants have committed.
For example, people have been ordered to hold “idiot” signs and in Utah the mother of a 13-year-old girl was ordered to cut the ponytail of her daughter in order to reduce a community service requirement.
In a 2 to 3-page paper, using APA format, address the issue “Is Shaming Right?”
- You should identify the purposes of criminal punishment, trends in punishment, and then examine whether or not shaming can punish, educate and/or rehabilitate.
- Finally, you should address whether or not shaming punishments should be used in the criminal punishment process and provide support for your reasoning.
- You should use detailed examples in you paper and explain your analysis thoroughly. You are required to use 2-3 outside sources and incorporate those into your paper.
Please be sure to include a reference page at the end of your paper.no foriegn references & properly cite