Locked Away Forever Analysis

Individuals in life or death situations should not be held accountable for their action. They are obviously going to want to be alive and happy, and not die or live in misery, so victims would most likely do whatever it takes to survive. Whoever made the decisions weren’t fully thinking it through because we all develop mentally at a different age for children and adults. Individuals who are in life or death situations don’t put themselves in that positions purposely to where they know they can die. In situations like these, everyone feels stress to the point where they have no other option until it is too late when they make their final choice like what happened in “The Seventh Man”

For example, sixteen-year old Sarah Kruzan was sentenced to life without parole for murdering her pimp. However, she is now 29 years of age, and says how she “deserved the punishment and that it is not okay to take anyone’s life” (Serwer, 1).In the same way how Sara Kruzan understood the wrong in her actions, minors can do the same and change their behaviour, allowing them to be respected by society once again. Another teen killer, Jacob Ind murdered his parents while they were laying in bed. However, Jacob and his brother were physically and emotionally abused by their parents. Years later, Jacob told a local news station that he killed his parents, because he was too “weak to directly confront them and that it was of pure selfishness” (Serwer,

Our common practice of thinking of others and ourselves as accountable is simply not justified!

In the Article Locked Away, Patricia Smith argues that jail are being filled with inmates that should not be there. People are being put away for little crimes that should not be enforced. People should not be put away for stealing a candy bar for the fifth time. Any crime that is constantly committed should be informed. When someone believes that they can get away with little petty stuff they will eventually believe they can get away with something bigger. “A california man with five prior convictions was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing a slice of pepperoni pizza”(Smith). Not all crimes should be sentenced to 25 years after a third convection. Luckily the State is realising what they are doing is wrong and have realised 6,000

Kenneth Young’s mother was a crack addict who apparently stole from Jacques Bethea, who then threatened him to become an accomplice. Can he really be blamed for committing the crime? We all make bad decisions and we have to see someone like Kenneth Young is not all bad, that he is not defined by his deeds. Because if he is, we will, and always will be labeled as bad people. Philosophically speaking, the idea that all decisions are determined by previous causes is called determinism. Determinists will see Kenneth’s situation as inevitable, because they do not believe in free will. All actions are just consequences of previous actions. Each choice a person makes is impacted by previous life events. They will just see as his sentenced justified and rot in prison his whole life. But Kenneth chose a different path, he chose to fight and get his GED. The path he took represented libertarian free will, which believes in the ability to choose other than your determined nature. Kenneth presents an option where people can elevate beyond their determined

Any time a person commits a crime on their own free will for any reason, they most likely have a conscious or even if they don’t, they should know of right and wrong; should know that the crime they are about to commit is illegal. In the case where the Texas Tower shooter, could feel mentally that his brain was changing in a way that just wasn’t himself, on one side the argument could be made that, if he knew some sort of change was going on he could have sought medical (mental) help to try and figure out why he was feeling this way.

The many people who confessed did not get executed, but someone who was proven guilty was. The men and women who refused to plead guilty “knew

Accountability is defined by answering or accounting for one’s actions and results. It is something every leader should aspire to obtain and uphold. Accountability is easily talked about but can be very hard and uncomfortable to apply to one’s self. You will rarely hear someone stating that they should be more accountable for their actions, yet we do hear that from our peers and leaders on how we should take more accountability for our day to day actions and how they could eventually affect our futures.

If you went out one day and out of nowhere you find yourself in a life-or-death situation would it be your fault? People in a life-or-death situation should be held accountable for their actions because most of the time people know that if they do something that can put them in a life-or-death situation then something bad will happen but they still do it willingly. Another person might not agree with this claim and say that people should not be held accountable for their actions. The reason he or she might think this is because if when a person does face a life-or-death situation it might not be entirely their fault. The following reasons are examples of why my claim is stronger.

Throughout our lives, we’re faced with many decisions to make, and there is nothing more important than what we decide to do. Decision making is a big responsibility and a choice must always be made. If you think about it, not making a decision is a choice within itself. Sadly, our decisions are usually not our own. Decision making relies on others power over us. When a person of power threatens another with punishment their decisions are altered out of fear. This is clearly shown in the play, Romeo and Juliet, the Apartheid in South Africa, as well as the curfew in Evanston.

What is accountability; the definition is simply liable to account for one’s actions, “A is accountable to B when A is obliged to inform B about A’s (past or future) actions and decisions, to justify them, and to suffer punishment in the case of eventual misconduct. Accountability is a concept in ethics with several meanings. It is often used synonymously with such concepts as answerability, enforcement,

Accountability is important, because without it, there's no where to place the blame when mistakes occur. In fact, accountability covers more than just blameworthiness; responsibility, answerability, and liability also come into question when discussing the importance of accountability. The very application of the word, describes a system, in which actions, decisions, and policies are all accounted for (or: kept track of, recorded, and assessed and evaluated). Accountability can even extend into the administration of new policies, that are rendered due to obsolete rules and regulations or just out-right compliancy issues; the governance of decisions that define expectations or verify one's performance-- as well as managing and guiding

Life is full of challenges made to test one’s integrity. It is impossible for one to live life without encountering a decision that questions their identity. This test of character ultimately shows what kind of person one truly is. When faced with challenges an individual can react in a plethora of ways. Like in the story “The Guest” by Albert Camus, the main character, Daru is given the orders to take a man accused of murder to jail. Unknowingly to Daru, the prisoner comes from poverty and does not understand the extent of his actions. Daru has the choice of either taking the man to prison or setting him free, but he chooses neither and decides to let the Arab decide for himself. Daru’s choice is his way of dodging the issue and avoiding the

The word accountability is toss around so much latterly it is hard to ignore it. What exactly is accountability? Everyone claims they are doing it yet so many leaders and employees lack the concept of accountability. Accountability is a subject that ranges through every spectrum of life. Accountability is hold each person responsible his or her own actions in the given situation, especially when we know the circumstances. If we are not to hold each other responsible for each of our own actions and choices then we will never be able to correct problems and concerns, which will make us fail as a whole because the smallest individual action can account for the gravest of consequence.

The Rational Choice Theory, as more commonly referred to as Choice Theory, is a view as to why criminals commit crimes, and more importantly why juveniles choose to be delinquent. The problem of juvenile delinquency in keeping with this viewpoint, makes juvenile delinquency an individual problem and not a social problem. The Rational Choice theory will be detailed throughout this paper as well as the theory’s established ways in which the theorists believe juvenile delinquency can be prevented. The validity of the Rational Choice Theory will also briefly be discussed.