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This is http://www.essayz.com/a9406253.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %PUNISH PRISON CAPITAL DEATH SENTENCE PREVENT CRIME 940625 Often extreme forms of punishment are justified as preventive measures because they are presumed to inhibit criminal activities. The dilemma is that the crimes are reflexive in nature on the part of victims, perpetrators, and society---and so the question of prevention cannot be studied scientifically with objectivity, even if there were a desire to do so, which there rarely is. People do not want to study the effectiveness of extreme forms of punishment, because the imposition of extreme forms of punishment is not motivated by open and honest technical considerations; but rather by reflexive collusive considerations relating to addictive attempts to be in control, get revenge, express anger, etc. The notion that there are beneficial effects of imposing extreme forms of punishment is a false myth which is maintained to conceal the real motives which are buried in collusive games of mutual self deception. Extreme forms of punishment virtually always entail legalism, judgmentalism, condemnation, excommunication and alienation; all of which tend to create contexts which are conducive to additional crime. Separating criminals from potential victims to reduce the probability of additional victimization (while an effort is made to rehabilitate the criminals in keeping with an integrative paradigm) is a reasonable response to criminal activity---but is not in keeping with the pseudo- theory of extreme forms of punishment. Dealing with criminals is a reflexive process and cannot be done wisely when pretending that it is an objective process of manipulation and control. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================