Punishments

The question whether the primary purpose of prison is to educate or to punish is an extremely controversial issue, which is widely discussed nowadays. In current society, all people know the function of prisons and also know it is not a good place. From ancient times to the present, almost every major ancient civilization treated the prison as a place to detain prisoners and kill criminals. In these early times, prisons were often used as temporary detention places before being sentenced to death or enslaved. That was a big punishment for people to go to the jail. However, is the main purpose of prison only to punish people? It may be argued that the reason why the main purpose of prison is to punish because the function of punishment is to…

out punishment. Through this process a guide of Philosophies of Punishment with eight different concepts. Retribution, Deterrence, Rehabilitation, Isolation, Incapacitation, Reintegration, Restitution, and Restoration. These punishments was established to help curve the criminal element and or activities. Even with these different types of punishment law enforcement officials still have problematic with overrunning correctional systems and a high recidivism rate. First philosophy and oldest…

In this essay I will discuss two approaches to punishment which are retributivism, also known as non-consequentialism, and utilitarianism, also known as consequentialism. I will then analyse three justifications of punishment within the utilitarian approach which are reform and rehabilitation, individual and general deterrence and incapacitation. Retributivism is a sociological perspective of crime which looks at the different forms and changes in punishment. It is a backward thinking approach…

Punishment Punishment is a behavior modification procedure in which a response is followed by a consequence, which decreases the future frequency of the response and similar responses. There are two theories about punishment that shape how punishment is defined today. The first theory defines punishment as a procedure that elicits a response incompatible with the punished behavior (Holth, 2005). This theory was supported by Thorndike and Skinner who believed that punishment was not effective at…

The moral justification for legal punishment finds itself in philosophy through two theories that contrast each other in their complex and thought-provoking ideas: the retributivist theory of punishment (RTP) and the utilitarian theory of punishment (UTP). The RTP focuses on the individual and the crime to justify its proportional punishment. On the other hand, the UTP suggests that maximizing happiness in society is the main goal. The importance of defining legal punishment from just punishment…

Punishment involves the infliction of pain on a supposed offender or genuinely guilty party for an offense, for example, a legitimate transgression. Since discipline includes delivering agony or hardship like what the culprit of a wrongdoing perpetrates on his victim, it has for the most part been concurred that discipline requires moral and in addition legitimate and political justification. While philosophers all concur that punishment is at any rate now and again reasonable, they offer…

The four Philosophies of Punishment (1) Retribution: It is a hypothesis of equity that considers proportionate punishment an adequate reaction to wrongdoing. This retribution theory essentially fit the ethical gravity of a wrongdoing committed and, to a lesser degree, the qualities of the guilty party. Furthermore, it is utilized as the premise for discipline which includes compulsory sentencing strategies and sentencing rules frameworks. These disciplines are a social articulation of the…

The statement is concerned with the fundamental purpose of punishments and the implications for society. The question whether crimes can only be committed, if the defendant has consciously chosen to do so, challenges concepts such as, omissions and strict liability cases. This essay will evaluate whether it is true that a defendant can only be punished if they have consciously committed the wrong, and if not; what are the views which challenge this? The punishment described here is retributive…

“The word "punishment" comes from the same root (Z.. poena) as do the words "penalty" and "pain"”(Maurer, 614). It is hard to say exactly what punishment entails because it can be defined differently all throughout the United States and the world. It is not uncommon for scientist to come up with new words and change the meanings of old ones. Times change and words change all the time. For this paper I think it is important to understand “The synonyms "chastise," "discipline," and "correct" are…

This article informs about the influences of state punishment and private prisons. Although state punishment is an important aspect of either prison system, this particular article opens up for more questions and ideologies of the private prison systems to occur. The main question that this article argues is why both the public and prison systems are capable of falling so far below the obligations that they must fulfill? This particular study looks into this question through inferring a deep…