Hammurabi’s code was important because it was the first time that a state’s laws… provided prisons for punishment. were set down in writing. imposed taxes on citizens. applied to the royal household.

Define the term brutalization effect and describe in your own words why you think this occurs and how it conflicts with the ideas of deterrence theory.

How is the president involved in the process of bills becoming laws?

Read the excerpt below and answer the question. obierika was a man who thought about things. when the will of the goddess had been done, he sat down in his obi and mourned his friend’s calamity. why should a man suffer so grievously for an offense he had committed inadvertently? (p. 125) based on the context clues, the best definition for the word “calamity” in the excerpt above is disaster sadness luck indifference