punishment

Greg Heffley is suspected of damaging school property but he is stuck in a cabin with his family because of a blizzard and will have to face punishment when he gets out.

Greg Heffley is suspected of damaging school property but he is stuck in a cabin with his family because of a blizzard and will have to face punishment when he gets out.

Discusses the history of punishment for those who have broken their community's laws, and focuses on law, taboos, corporal punishment, the death penalty, and rehabilitation.

Presents a range of essays espousing opposing viewpoints on topics relating to modern American prisons and the experiences of prisoners inside them and once they get released.

Offers teachers effective strategies to help students make good behavioral choices and develop the self-control needed to make the right choices in the classroom setting, with information on why certain children behave certain ways.

"When Emily sees her developmentally disabled classmate Belinda being attacked, she does nothing at all. Belinda, however, manages to save herself. When their high school finds out what happened, Emily and Lucas, a football player who was also there that night, are required to perform community service at a center for disabled people. But can they do anything that that will actually help the one person they hurt the most?"--OCLC.

Presents a graphic novel version and retelling of the handbook and treatise "Race to Incarcerate," which explores how the United States has the highest criminal incarceration population in the world. Discusses where the U.S. prison system and incarceration policies may have gone wrong and are needlessly putting more strain on our prisons than necessary.

The history of punishing criminals is a long and gruesome one. In 620 BC, a Greek named Draco wrote a legal code that punished almost every crime with death, except murder! For that, criminals were exiled. Odd facts about crime and punishment like this abound in history.

An account of the use of torture by the United States intelligence service, its legalization under Bush, and the damage caused to morality, law, and the future of the United States by Obama's granting impunity to the torturers.

Analyzes the United States' overflowing prisons and argues for alternative forms of punishment.