Shawshank Redemption Ethical Issues

RP#I: “The Shawshank Redemption” Humans are by nature social beings, this means we have to communicate and interact with other people. Attempting to establish a polite relationship between people, control mechanisms were created to correct people from taking bad decisions and doing unaccepted actions such as stealing, murder, fighting, and rape. Margin someone from society and imprison him could be for the police and society the best solution, but the circumstances lived in jail are for sure the worst experiences for the internees. Based on the movie The Shawshank Redemption, this paper analyzes three of the amount of issues presented on the film and ties them to problems occurring now days. The issues described on this paper are infidelity,
“Elevated power is positively associated with infidelity because power increases confidence in the ability to attract partners” (Diederik A. Staple, 1191). Gender does not affect the result, but in some countries female infidelity is the result of many murders. The probability of wives being killed in a context of love triangles is much higher that the chance of a man being killed by his wife for the same
Physical abuse is the second analyzed issue. Just as Andy gets in jail, one of the new internees was hit by a police because of an inopportune comment, and as the movie develops we see many examples of how prisoners are beaten, cooped, and raped by guards and other prisoners. Not long time ago, prisons were still using physical torture to obtain information from the accused, or to punish them. Being beaten and copped became normal until government authorities decide to delete their image of punishers to one that could offer safety and rehabilitation to the internees. Thanks to new laws and restrictions the use of physical punishments is decreasing. Rape between the internees has also decrease, but it is one of the most difficult problems to solve. “Very few of the sexual assaults that occur behind bars are officially reported” (Levan Miller, Kristine, 693). Research indicates that victims may avoid officially reporting sexual assault due to feelings of shame or embarrassment. They may also believe that they are partially responsible for the crime, or that no official action will be taken against the perpetrator.
Wolf Nancy and Shi Jing (2011) estimate that the most likely average rate of prison rape is 1.9%. This range is supported by recently studies of rape in prison systems in California, New Jersey, and