punishment

Presents a brief look into the history of punishment and incarceration from ancient Babylon to the penal systems in place today.

A reference guide which examines the history of punishment in America, looks at debates over the methods and administration of punishment, provides a worldwide perspective on the topic, and includes a chronology, biographical sketches, facts and data, and resources.

Examines the debate over whether rehabilitation should be the goal of punishment for crime in the United States, looking at various theories of crime deterrence, and discussing specific prison populations, and the death penalty.

Studies the historical origins of provisions of the Eighth Amendment, which guards against excessive bail and fines and cruel and unusual punishments.

After he is involved in a prank that led to an elderly woman's injury, twelve-year-old Mitchell must make amends by participating in a police program in which he chats online with a nursing home resident.

Privileged teenager Sid has a proxy, Knox, who receives punishment for Syd's wrong doings, when Syd kills one of his friends in a car crash, it is Knox who is sentenced to death. When the two boys realize they must work together to beat the system they flee looking for answers.

Discover what it was like to live in a castle for everyone from the lord and lady to the children of servants.

Following an act of vandalism against her father's girlfriend, a seventeen-year-old girl is paired by the court with an eccentric senior citizen whose hobby as a sleuth turns deadly.