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Searching for alternatives to imprisonment makes sense, but it's a mistake to embrace shaming as one of them. The very goal of shaming is the dehumanization of another person before, and with the participation of, the public. ... First, shaming punishments are likely to be counterproductive. ... Today's Top News Stories...
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Shaming punishments are a return to primitive practices common before the American Revolution, when people were forced into public pillories, ... In another spanking case, former Alabama judge Herman Thomas actually used shaming punishments as a criminal defense. ... USA TODAY welcomes your views and encourages lively --
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LANSING -- Public shaming as criminal punishment, once thought to belong only in the colonial days fictionalized in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter," is being revived in U.S. courts. Corrections and court officials mix support and detraction for its introduction into Michigan.
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Orin Kerr has here effectively jumped into today's debate over shaming punishments (basics here). Orin terrifically explains ... Rather they were simply opportunities to parade offenders before the public eye for derision or worse. (Indeed, those subject to shaming have sometimes had vigilante violence visited upon them,
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Historically, shaming punishments have included violence to the criminal - flogging, branding and dunking, Whitman wrote in a recent essay for the Yale Law Journal. While today's sanctions are much milder, without any express violence, ... As people used to say in the 19th century, it brutalizes the public," he says.
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Malaysia Today. Independent News Portal in Malaysia. Read the latest news in the country covering issue on politics, business, lifestyle, community, and so much more. ... Bukit Antarabangsa – U turn in public disclosure ... New look for Malaysia Today, look out for FreeMalaysiaToday site...
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While at the store today, I resisted the urge to toss in two boxes of allergy medicine. I chose three bottles of soda, ... When I brought up the oft-repeated argument that we are to use the "rod" on our children, she gently reminded me that the rod was used for sheep, was used by the shepherd to guide the sheep.
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however, ample data suggests that current forms of sentencing are ineffective in punishing and/or rehabilitating criminals.(18) Moreover, the majority of offenders in the prison system today are nonviolent drug offenders who would benefit from an alternative form of punishment.(19) Currently, nonviolent offenders are...
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There's an interesting discussion going on in the blogosphere about shaming punishments, ... I used to live in Hawaii. ... How about give the criminals (who are usually low-level criminals) a choice: jail or shaming? I'd bet you that the vast majority would prefer public shaming over even a short time (a month) in prison.
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