What is social control? Social control is any action that influences conduct toward conformity, whether or not the person being influenced are aware of the process. Law is more formalized social control. Social control is happening everywhere it starts with parents disciplining their children. Then it goes to police giving out warnings or tickets to people when the person has broken the law. Then the last social control is the values of people like cursing around little children or around someone who is a senior both of them are wrong. In the law and social control there are many different theories of punishment the first one is retributive theory which is like eye for an eye. The person which is in the wrong gets punished on the level of balance of what they did. The second theories is authoritarian theory is all about preventing the crime from happening again by the same person. In this theory the person who is in the wrong is punished to the extant that they will not want to do the crime again. The third theory is deterrence in this theory the person that is in the wrong is punished harsh for ultimate prevention. The fourth theory is incarceration this theory takes away the freedom of the person who did the crime. The fifth theory is rehabilitation in this theory the person gets treated for as long as it takes for them to get better. Then finally there is restorative justis in which the person who is responsible has to restore the victim to how they were before the crime, restore the society or community, and restore themselves to be a better person. The plea bargaining is a way for the prosecutor to get a guilty plea without working really hard on convincing the jury that the defendant is guilty. There are three different plea bargains. The first is charge bargaining in which the prosecutor lowers the charge if the defendant pleas guilty to it. The second is count bargaining in which the prosecutor lowers the amount of counts that they will be charging the dependent if they plea guilty. This bargaining usually is a trick because most of the time the prosecutor will drop those charges because they can not prove that the dependent actually did them. Then the last one is sentence bargaining the prosecutor will ask the judge to lower the sentence if the defendant pleas guilty to the charges. The plea bargaining is a good tool but it when the dependent pleas guilty to something in a plea bargain they give away some of their right. The social control and law chapter was interesting because i got to learn how we have came all this way in punishment and bargaining skill. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJP296CpCa4
Thursday, November 20, 2008
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I graded 7-9. I thought 8 was your best work with reflection. Chapter 9 really didn't have any reflection on your learning (it was just a bunch of facts about the chapter). I found your chapter 9 video pretty offensive. I don't know if you intended for it to be a joke, but there were definitely some issues that were not appropriate for an academic assignment.
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