Failure of the Legal System in Atonement, Wonder Boys and The Round Hou

The regulation of Hammurabi, go out back to 1772 BC, is one of the oldest recorded legal canons and reflects the early Babylonians go throughs of justice. The calculate is outgo known for an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. By enumerating punishments for certain crimes the code removes ambiguity and combined with its relatively harsh penalties, especially on decline class citizens, served as an effective deterrent. More profoundly however, Hammurabis code formally shifted justice-seeking responsibilities from the individual to the state. Today, most modern legal systems are organise similarly to Hammurabis code with their own codified integritys and listed punishments. Capital punishment and the idea that the punishment should fit he crime are derivatives from the antediluvian text that are widespread in the world today. Hammurabis code however was non without fault. Pervasive throughout the archetype of modern law are inequitable punishments determined by ones brotherly standing. For example, the 8th law of Hammurabis code states, If any one make cattle or sheep, or an ass, or a pig or a goat, if it belong to a god or to the court, the thief shall stomach thirtyfold therefore if they belonged to a freed man of the king he shall pay tenfold if the thief has nothing with which to pay he shall be put to goal (King). Both the social standing of the violator and the victim of the crime contend a large role in determining what the penalty would be. Today, our view of justice has ostensibly metamorphosed, to the extent that most people today would fleck that the 8th law from Hammurabis code was prejudiced and wrong. Although some whitethorn wish to remove themselves from such an unjust system, the reality is that we are not far from it. The mode... ...sity, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2013. . Lee, Jaeah, and Brett Bownell. Charts Why Youre in Deep Trouble If You Cant yield a Lawyer. Mother Jones. Mother Jones, 1 July 2013. Web. 10 Dec. 2013. . Mc Ewan, Ian. Atonement A Novel. New York N.A. Talese/Doubleday, 2002. Print. Stevenson, Bryan. We Need to Talk about an Injustice. TED Ideas worth Spreading. TED Talks, Mar. 2012. Web. 10 Dec. 2013. Wright, Paul. prison house Legal News - Legal Articles, Cases and Court Decisions. prison house Legal News. Prison Legal News, n.d. Web. 10 Dec. 2013. .