Effects Of Commodification On Homicide

1. If one observes the effects of commodification on homicide it is seen that in an open marked filled with exchange values homicide rates are higher than in a taxed based, use values system. Commodification is the process of turning use values into exchange values. In other words values are goods, services, ideas that are transformed into objects of trade. Use values are values that are derived from the satisfaction of a specific want or need, the value its usefulness is to a person. Exchange values are the values based on what the product can give in its exchange; it’s worth that a person is willing to pay for in order to have it. Use values are the public’s goods and exchange the private goods. These values cause a division into a collectivism and individualism society. The United States has gone into the path
David Dow is an attorney that defends death row inmates in Texas. His job is to fight for his client to get life sentence rather than to be executed. He talks about how most of the cases he gets his client are guilty. He discusses how there are times when by the time his clients get send to death row are completely changed. That after so much time they have been rehabilitated and probably don’t deserve to be executed. He also discusses how there have been a few times where he gets a client that he truly thinks there is no way he could change. That the client is certainly “evil”, but he fights for them because he believes that they should still has the justice system run its course. He stands for the notion that people are still people no matter what they’ve done.
3. A sociologist would not advocate reinstating the death penalty in New Mexico. From a sociological point of perspective the person that is responsible for committing the crime, theoretically, is society. When humans no longer have price people have no social obligation to them other than the economic amount. The death penalty would be a representation of how human lives are