Just Mercy Marxist Analysis

Functionalist: A functionalist would view Juvenile death-in-prison sentences as being a latent function. That the manifest function of criminals being sentenced to death-in-prison sentences were not thought to include the heinous crimes that adolescents commit but what adults commit. The fact that juveniles are now committing the same crimes as adults messes with the manifest function that these crimes must be punished by death-in-prison sentences. Conflict-Marxist: A Marxist would believe that the government isn’t giving the lower social classes the support and power that they need in order to live, so adolescents start join gangs and commit horrible crimes so that they can earn money and more power for their lower social class. They would …show more content…
The causes of this punishment are; fear of increased violence in incarcerated adolescents (pg.159), differentiation of social class (pg.155), and racial discrimination (pg.154). This sentence can cause the adolescents who receive it to lose their rights as an American citizen, as outlined in the Declaration of Independence. A social policy that would help the circumstances of this punishment would be for the United States bans juvenile life imprisonment without parole sentences for all crimes committed when under the age of 18. This policy is more liberal for the reason that it involves the government cutting into the situation and banning a certain political appeal. This social policy would help many adolescents that were sentenced to these cruel and unusual punishments and would allow them to regain freedom by standing for a parole board to regain limited freedom when they were 18-21 years old. The principle objective of this paper was to discuss cruel and unusual punishments for juveniles; that if adolescents are feared for future violence, social class is differentiated, and prisoners are racially discriminated against, then cruel and unusual punishments are