Crime, punishment and the law

Christian David Bauza Gomes
A01375193
IB English A


A constitution is essentially the document or set of political principles by which a place or organisation is governed. Basically, a constitution is the set of laws by which a country or place is ruled, organised, and put together as a society and/or hierarchy. The constitution determines which things or situations are considered plausible for people to do, what things are for some ages only (or for some genders only), what things are allowed among society and what things are restricted for people to do. If those restrictions stated by the government through the constitution are violated in any way by the members of the society, then they are committing what it's called a crime. A crime is a synonym of the slang expression "breaking the rules" which, applying it to this case, means that what it's established as a norm or law, is being un-followed according to its specifications and instead the person committing it is doing something completely opposite or just plain wrong for both society and members of the government.

When a person is caught committing a crime, they are put to trial and, depending on the verdict, they are condemned to a punishment depending on what crime he or she was sent guilty for. A punishment is a form of payback or payment that, according to law, is fair for a person to learn a lesson about what happens after going against what's right for society or simply to be put a halt in many ways if the crime is either recurring or too vile and serious. There are many types of punishment, some involving torture and sexual abuse with other criminals in jail or others with pacifist methods given by the law like doing community service cleaning up highways filled with garbage, however, a type of punishment that is the worst among them all is the death penalty. The death penalty is the ultimate punishment for a criminal since this is his or her own life we're talking about, involving an electric chair with leather straps on the armrests and on the lower half where the feet are. Once secured, the criminal is given a final prayer and then is submitted to the maximum voltage level, making every muscle of the body quiver and slowly tear apart as time goes by, which can either be quick or slow depending on whether there is a water sponge on the criminal's head or not.