Punishment - reduction & retribution
- Created by: rebeccamellors
- Created on: 14-02-17 12:12
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- Punishment
- Reduction
- Deterrence - punishing individual discourages them from future offending
- Rehabilitation - idea that punishment can be used to reform or change offenders so they no longer offender
- Incapacitation - use of punishment to remove then offenders capacity to offend again
- This justification is an instrumental one- punishment is a means to an end
- Retribution
- Means 'paying back'
- Its a justification for punishing crimes hat have already been committed rather than preventing future crimes
- Based on idea that offenders deserve to be punished & society is entitled to take its revenge on the offender
- This is an expressive rather than instrumental view of punishment - it expresses society's outrage
- Reduction
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