Punishment

•Criminals should pay for their crime.
This is effective because:
•Criminals pay proportionately to the severity of their crime.

• Criminals suffer for what they’ve done wrong giving them empathy with their victims.
• It punishes the criminal.

•The punishment should put other people off committing crime, this is done through a severe punishment in proportion to the crime.
This is effective because:

• If someone knows they will have their hand cut off for stealing, they won’t steal.
  ��If people can be executed for murder they will not murder.

•Criminals should be taught not to commit crime again.
This is effective because:

• The only way to really stop crime is to reform the criminal so that they don’t want to commit more crimes.
• Most criminals only commit crimes because they don’t know any better.
  ��Reformation punishments help criminals find alternative ways to live through education

•The punishment should protect society from criminals and their activities.
This is effective because:
•Capital punishment prevents murderers and terrorists from threatening anyone else.
•Long prison sentences keep violent or persistent criminals away from society.
•Community Service can keep hooligans and vandals busy and off the streets.