Crime and PunishmentHamletIn this article, the emergence and evolution of poetic meaning in the literary text is examined in the theoretical problem context of a special semantic construct. Its peculiarity lies in offering a double reading based on the internal contradiction of activating two opposed...
Over the last several decades, feminist scholars have advanced our understanding of the relationship between race, gender and crime. This body of work illustrates how gender inequality makes women more vulnerable to incarceration and punishment. Feminist criminologists who examine crime and victimization ...
their sample includes cases of “blunt force injuries to the cranium and embedded stone and bone projectile points in the post-crania with no signs of healing – providing a prevalence of 1.8 per cent of adults dying violently.”
Mmmm stats~ + +**"The Game of Trust"** + +This game is also known in game theory as the infamous *Prisoner's Dilemma*. The Prisoner's Dilemma is named after a story where two suspects can either squeal on their partner-in-crime ("cheat"), or stay silent ("cooperate"). I chose...
“crime”) and the regulation and control of that behavior (“punishment”). The specific account of human evolution outlined above may well be subject to change and revision, but central to understanding human uniqueness, and equally important to the study of crime and our responses to crime,...
Over at the websiteEvolving Perspectives, reader Pliny the in between has a new cartoon called “Nuts and bolts of crime and punishment“. It illustrates one of the many misconceptions people have about science-based determinism and its rejection of libertarian free will: that under determinism is...
This essay focuses on the trait of neoteny - or the retention of childlike characteristics in mature members of a species. This process appears so amplified in humanity that we have been called the neotenous clan of apes. Humans much more closely resembl
In the first place, it sheds new light on Durkheim's thought in a number of areas. As an indication of his increased theoretical sophistication, it is instructive to compare the account he here gives of the evolution of punishment with the rather crude and vulnerable one he gives of the ...
Identity fusion represents a strongly-held personal identity that significantly overlaps with that of a group, and is the current best explanation as to why individuals become empowered to act with extreme self-sacrifice for a group of non-kin. This is w
That they were able to get anywhere near the Capitol is the real crime here. Everyone knew they were coming in large numbers. I am very interested in hearing how this whole thing happened. The lady was a victim of her corruption by a lying President and his minions and to the police (...