Today's crime and punishments.

dominique thach 8a Keysborough sec. S.S.C

Intro:
Comparing today's crime and punishments and medievals crime and punishments, i have both found some useful information with what the similarities are and both the differences. Some you may have already guessed. Or some you just might learn by reading the following post.

thanks to : http://australia.gov.au/

Today's punishments:
Be grateful, for the fact that nowadays, in Australia, we are civilised people. We abide by each others laws and rules. If not, we would surely be punished. However; death would not be an option no matter what the crime is. Our definition of suffering, is spending one's life in jail until the day one would die. The consequences of any criminal offence are different in much ways. Juvenial, for those who are not yet adults and jail for those that are. Though, juvenile detentions and jails aren't always the alternative or the only way! Some face charges, for example paying fines; the price depends on what law was broken or how many times you have broken the law. They say one would learn from their mistakes. Most do, some don't, for those that do, it may even make them a better person. For those that don't - they would likely get a higher fine or go through bigger, more severe punishment. For those who would decide the punishment or a person's fate would be those like: judges, juries and most likely if the rule/crime/law that was broken wasn't very serious - the person who was most affected by the rule/crime/law that was broken, and will have a say in the punishment. There are many examples of what kind of punishments there are nowadays. But here is a list of some of the many punishments law breakers would have to go through: Going to jail/juvenial, paying fines, getting licenses taken away, losing custody of your child, not being able to see a particular person or being put under restraint. Different punishments are for different crimes.

Similarities of punishments in medieval times and today's.
Those who break the law or don't obey certain rules always get punished, if not, then no sane person may have witnessed or have seen those law-breakers break the law/rule.

Differences between the punishments in medieval times and today's.
The way we punish today is different from the way they punished in Medieval times, while we prefer life in jail, they preffered death.

Today's crimes:
Some crimes are as bad as man slaughter, rape, murder, or killing in particular. Those will always lead to juvenile dentention or life in jail. You would mostly suspect teenagers or adolescences for those that would steal, probably because their parents have denied them the money to buy particular things or don't have the money to provide for their children. There are a list of wrongs and rights in our country and skys the limit with what they are. But I have to say that one of the worst crimes is taking someone's life, but of course, on purpose. However, it was for self defence it would turn out to be a different story.

Differences between medieval crimes and today's:
Back in medieval life, more crimes were commited, mostly because it was hard to find jobs at that time and the poor had hardly any choice but to steal for survival. For us, anyone could have any job they want if they set their mind to it and work hard so they could earn money. As for murders, in medieval times the punishment would be most likely death. Here, as I said, depending on your age; either juvenial detention or life in jail.