There are 2 aims of 1. Reduction
punishment:
↑ Deterrence
- Reduction (prevents future Punishing the individual discourages them
crime) from reoffending and it sets an example to the
public (Right Realists)
- Retribution (paying them
back/revenge)
↑ Rehabilitation
Punishment can reform or change offenders so they no
longer offend, e.g. provide education and training for
prisoners so they can work on release (Left Realists)
↑ Incapacitation
Remove capacity to offend e.g. chopping off
hands, execution, chemical castration
↑
(Modern day incapacitation is imprisonment, curfews,
tagging)
Crime and
Deviance -
Punishment
2. Retribution
↑ Involves punishing crimes that have already been committed rather
than preventing future crimes.
↑ More about seeking revenge.
Retribution is designed to ‘avenge’ the victim and the
Reparation public for the offenders’ crime; getting revenge/settling
the score.
This involves
compensating the ↑ E.g. The death penalty is often justified with the
victim of the crime, biblical idea; ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a
usually by ordering the life for a life’.
offender to pay a sum
of money to the victim. It isn’t trying to alter the future behaviour of
the offender; just inflict punishment to provide
justice.
It can also include Retributive punishment is quite a backward
compensating society through looking theory of punishment, with examples
punishments such as doing like life sentences and the death penalty.
community service and unpaid Right Realists would consider retribution a
work. fitting punishment.
punishment:
↑ Deterrence
- Reduction (prevents future Punishing the individual discourages them
crime) from reoffending and it sets an example to the
public (Right Realists)
- Retribution (paying them
back/revenge)
↑ Rehabilitation
Punishment can reform or change offenders so they no
longer offend, e.g. provide education and training for
prisoners so they can work on release (Left Realists)
↑ Incapacitation
Remove capacity to offend e.g. chopping off
hands, execution, chemical castration
↑
(Modern day incapacitation is imprisonment, curfews,
tagging)
Crime and
Deviance -
Punishment
2. Retribution
↑ Involves punishing crimes that have already been committed rather
than preventing future crimes.
↑ More about seeking revenge.
Retribution is designed to ‘avenge’ the victim and the
Reparation public for the offenders’ crime; getting revenge/settling
the score.
This involves
compensating the ↑ E.g. The death penalty is often justified with the
victim of the crime, biblical idea; ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a
usually by ordering the life for a life’.
offender to pay a sum
of money to the victim. It isn’t trying to alter the future behaviour of
the offender; just inflict punishment to provide
justice.
It can also include Retributive punishment is quite a backward
compensating society through looking theory of punishment, with examples
punishments such as doing like life sentences and the death penalty.
community service and unpaid Right Realists would consider retribution a
work. fitting punishment.
