Crime And Punishment Does Punishment Work

Crime and Punishment: Does Punishment work suggest that punishment plays an important role in molding and shaping the behavior of individuals. This includes children, pupils, employees in the workplace, and regular people in our society. Society is divided between the justifications for the use of punishment for any given reason. Parents that use punishment as a tool in the rearing of children are looked upon as a negative concept. Using punishment as a source of disciple has been an issue for some individuals. Some states like California debated with bills that would make striking or spanking a child illegal. There are people that believe that punishment at times is necessary and should be used in the most effective and appropriate way to …show more content…
Aversive punishment include act such as fines, reprimands, and physical pain can cause unintended detrimental effects when the punishment is harsh and unexplained. These effects of punishments are not present when positive rewards are withheld, when privileges or delaying rewards until responsibilities and task are completed. Punishment can be divided into three categories. Natural consequences behavior violates the law of nature of society, if an individual forget to pay the electric bill the food in the frig goes bad and have to be thrown out, logical consequences is where the punishment contains a logical connection to the rule that was violated, if a child writes or color on the wall, they will have to clean it themselves, and contrived consequences refer to punishment for mischievous where punishment is not related to the negative behavior, motorist that violates traffic laws are fined is an example of contrived …show more content…
Beyond the Prison Bubble: As for America the goal to handle crime is locking criminals up in the prison system for long periods of time. This process is very expensive and results are not positive, because offenders are still involved in crime. Americans behind bars increased in 2009. This was the thirty-seventh year were the number of inmates increased. In the United States prisons and jails house more than two million inmates. Based off free nation, The United States have the highest incarceration rate among other free nations. There are no countries that come close to being more punitive as the United States. The United States by far incarcerates five times more individuals than Britain, nine times more that Germany, and twelve times more than Japan. The state of California which houses the largest state prison system saw a decrease in the prison population for the first time in thirty-eight years. With the decline in crime problems does not mean that the United States a found a solution to crime problems, if this was the case our prison system would have been depleted in the 1990’s when decrease of crime began to