laws & punishment Flashcards
a legally approved method designed to facilitate the task of crime control (GARLAND)
punishment
the aims of punishment is to prevent future crime
reductivist
those who look to the past to punish crimes that are already committed
retributivist
justifies punishment on grounds of its alleged future consequences and supported by a form of moral reasoning known to be UTILITARIANISM
reductivist principle
avoidance of further crime can be achieved through;
- deterring potential crimes (deterrence)
- reforming actual crimes (reform/rehabilitation)
- keeping actual or potential offenders (incapacitation)
wrongdoers should be punish because they ought be punish or they deserved to be it
retributivist principle
- an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth
- 1705BC in Babylon
- Law of RETALIATION
- based on the concept of LEX TALIONS
types of punishment
corporal & non corporal punishment
- death
- imprisonment (with or without labor)
corporal punishment
- fines
- forfeiture
- suspension or deprivation of some political or civil rights
- compulsion to remove nuisance
non corporal punishment
