This article is a report on the controversial Anti-piracy bill.  On October 13, 2008, President George W. Bush signed the bill into law.  This particular bill greatly stiffens penalties for movie and music piracy on a federal level.  The law itself creates a new position or "intellectual property czar," who will directly report to the President concerning ways in which copyright law can be better protected both domestically and internationally.  Previously, the Justice Department had contended that the new position would greatly undermine its authority.  The law also makes criminal laws against piracy more tough.  There is significant worry though that this new law risks the punishment of innocent people.  It is interesting to note that the MPAA strongly backed this bill.  The passing of this bill shows how ineffective some of the past legislation has been on curbing film piracy.  If past laws and case ruling had made enough of an impact, then this new, and aggressive, law would not have been needed.  Even though such groups as the MPAA have been making fervent efforts to curb film piracy, it is simply not enough.

This book is a great source if you want to know who has recieved the death chair. It dates back to the 1900's. It also tells you why, when and how the person recieved the death penalty.

This book tells about the different methods of the death penalty such as beheading, hanging, firing squad, etc. It also is ordered A-Z so things are easy to find if your working on a specific topic.

This is a book contains facts, documents, overviews, and biographical sketches about the death penalty. It's a great source if you want to write an argumentative report on the different views of the death penalty. It's great because it gives good reasons for capital punishment and good reasons why it should be abolished.

In this article the writers challenge professors of criminal justice to use film to explore political and social realities of punishment. They want to stimulate research into effectively teaching criminal justice with film. Through the movie one can better understand the issues that arise concerning punishment and the state. The writers trace the development of criminal justice from a mens rea requirement to strict liability, whereby treatment concerns their action and not their intent. They discuss therapy and punishment philosophies of criminal justice and their effectiveness. Some criticized rehabilitation because it “was unlikely because, within the prison system, rehab was an artificial means to obtain release and was imposed on the offender, not a means for the offender to alter his conduct.” This is initially the case with Alex. We know from his monologues that he is pulling a fast one on the system. The writers see the film as the conflicts of therapy versus punishment taken to the extreme. Alex goes from being punished for what he had done to being treated for who he is. The debate between the philosophies is not about empirical testing but rather about political control. The writers illustrate the film’s importance based on historical events going on at the time when Burgess wrote the novel. The writers summarize the film emphasizing the difference between Alex’s totally institutionalized life in prison and his treatment life in the caring hospital. They then argue that the film is completely relevant to teaching criminal justice today. The film enables students to be suspicious of the morality of our institutions’ practices. It also demonstrates the difference between a system’s philosophy and its implementation.

            The writers compare the permanent restriction of freedom from Alex’s treatment with the Sex Offender’s registry. They also consider public vigilantes taking out justice on offenders who are released early, as they happen in the film and in the real world. They argue that rehabilitation does not occur in the film, only incapacitation. They are concerned with legitimate consent because of the motivations to leave prison, similar to the ethical problem of compensating women for their eggs for stem cell research. The remainder of the article points out effective ways of using the movie as a teaching tool.