Analysis Of Judicial Corporal Punishment

In response to the mass incarceration issue in America’s prison systems, Arafa and Burns the authors of Judicial Corporal Punishment in the United States? Lessons from Islamic Criminal Law for Curing the Ills of Mass Incarceration, argued in favour of reinstating Judicial Corporal Punishment in the prison systems of America; similar to the ones that Islamic criminal law advocates for. Throughout the article, the authors’ work to prove how Judicial Corporal Punishment is more compassionate to both the offenders and their families; it also works to analyze how practical this method is in association with the costs required for each offender, and lastly, it ultimately, stresses how efficient it is in meeting the correctional aspirations of rehabilitation …show more content…
The authors’ accentuate the flaws of rehabilitative systems in prisons with reference to the fact that offenders leave prison even more experienced criminals with the likelihood of returning back to prison. They respond to this problem by addressing the lack of financial support offered to these rehabilitative systems including vocational training, education and other sorts, not provided by politicians. As a solution, they propose that rehabilitation be implemented by the offender 's family. Therefore, instead of leaving the offender in prisons where they are likely to be influenced by other criminal activity, they can be turned to their families after their physical punishment. In this article, the authors’ explain how although prisons work to make an offender’s sentence unpleasant, the authors stress that the recidivism rates are higher in the United States. The reason for this is prisoners often feel safest and most stable in prisons rather than on the streets. As an effective way to deter prisoners, JCP is seen to offer more extreme measures of punishment like flogging and although harsh,