Sociologists
have been probing the influence of parents and peer groups on young adolescents
for ages. While the parents play a crucial role in meeting the basic needs along with education and healthcare, peer groups provide the necessary
emotional support in sharing their views and interests and acts as stress
busters. When probed whether parental support or the peer group influence that
shape the personalities of the young adolescents, a significant co-relation
between the parental bond and attachment rather than the peer group pressure
that shapes the mental and behavioral frames of the young adolescents.
This paper looks at similar two
neglect cases tried in the prior system and considered how the neglect cases
had been evaluated and charged in the prior system and will be in the new
system in Japan. We obtained and reviewed the complete trial record of these cases by lawful means. The marked difference between two cases was whether the
offenders had concretely foreseen the result of “the death of a child”. In
spite of the same results caused by the mothers’ omission, their foresight of
the occurrence of the results made differences in the charges and sentences for
the offenders.
Prison
administrators, overburdened with the need to maintain security, are powerless.
This research proposal, therefore, presents a theoretical case for implementing
tribalism and alternative dispute resolution (ADR) within the prison system in
order to reduce violence, and empower both inmates and prison guards. Arguments
for the benefits of ADR are examined. The paper proposes a theoretical model that uses the prisoners as self-regulating agents for change. A proposal for
implementing reform by employing a system of “Tribal Elders” and a council of
guards system is also discussed.
Empirical research on developmental theories of crime first
informed us that increase in social capital such as quality marriages, jobs orfirst time fatherhood would lead toward desistance, except among men who were
substance abusers. However, the men in this notable work by Robert Sampson and
John Laub were based on a cohort who came of age during World War two.
While
this seemed disheartening for those of us who hoped for social policies that
might facilitate such attachment policies, at least in the United States where the incarceration mania continued until recently. Now new re-entry policies
have begun to lead to de-carceration movements around the country. While this
is laudable, job creation and treatment programs also must be created to
facilitate successful re-entry. The neighborhoods some of these form felons may
not increase but rather decrease their social capital.
On June 4, 2008, 27 year old Jodi Ann Arias murdered her
lover, 30 year old Travis Alexander. Demonized in the popular press, Arias is
often depicted as a crazy jealous angry sociopath who had a fatal attraction
toward a man who was largely indifferent to her. Yet when her story is examinedfrom a feminist perspective, the gendered sociological and psychological forces
that influenced her decision to commit the brutal crime become apparent. The all-encompassing
rage that fueled her violent action was at least partially the result of being
used, degraded and held to a double standard by a man who, at first glance,
seemed to be her prince charming. As such, Jodi Arias is not the monster she
has been portrayed to be. Her story can instead be likened to a tragic play.
