Analysis Of Bring Back Flogging

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Imprisonment VS flogging within the world, comparing the amount of criminals from today to 100 years ago, it is assumed that the numbers have gone up drastically. In “Bring Back Flogging” by Jeff Jacoby, he starts his essay off with giving out the history of flogging, beginning with what the criminal did and then explaining the type of punishment that the criminal would receive. While reading “Bring Back Flogging” it is shown how one would get beaten for blasphemy while one would be put into prison today. At the end of “Bring Back Flogging,” Jacoby then tries to convince the audience why flogging is a more beneficial punishment rather than prison. In “Bring Back Flogging” Jacoby does have some very convincing points for why flogging should …show more content…

While reading essays, it is usually quite simple to notice when the author is attempting to make the reader agree with what they believe. As shown in “Bring Back Flogging” Jacoby makes convincing points to the reader to believe that capital punishment isn’t working and that we should bring back flogging because of the social problems it is causing. Jacoby uses a couple of different ways to convince to the reader, such as when he says, “Meanwhile, the price, of keeping criminals in cages is appalling – a common estimate is $30,000 per inmate per year”. When reading this line in the essay, you then start thinking about how much money these inmates are taking from tax dollars when it could be going to other things that benefit us such as education. One of the most …show more content…

Unfortunately, the strategy of punishing a criminal by putting them into a jail cell with nothing to bring them pleasure doesn’t quite work as well as flogging. There will always be two different sides to this argument, but image being beat or burned to the point where the feeling of death comes upon you compared to the feeling of being alone in an uncomfortable cell just doesn’t compare. Criminals would rather have to deal with other criminals and sleep in uncomfortable situations rather than get beaten, as Jacoby states “For tens of thousands of convicts, prison is a graduate school of criminal studies: They emerge more ruthless savvy when they entered” (Pg. 192). With that being said, the thought of our government spending tons of money on criminals who aren’t turning out for the better and are actually turning into more violent and law breaking citizens, would make tax payers pro flogging instead of pro jail. Sadly, within the essay “Bring Back Flogging” Jacoby is extremely biased, because of this while reading Jacoby’s essay it is easy to not fully agree with what he believes, but with the strong points that Jacoby has the reader will find themselves siding with Jacoby more and more as they read. Even though flogging has become extinct within the United States, the death

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