Deterrence

The death penalty has been around as far back as the eighteenth century B.C. During colonial days, the death penalty was there in order to keep the religious command. There were a number of offenses a person could commit and receive the death penalty: Murder, Man stealing, bestiality, poisoning, witchcraft, etc. Each crime took its roots in religious sermons and biblical laws. Race played a large part of a sentencing for capital punishment before, during and after the Civil war. It was more…

Community-Control Programs as Part of Deterrence The use of deterrence theory has also been applied to community-control programs, specifically during the reform of the correctional system that involved the abandonment of rehabilitation (Cullen & Jonson, 2017). The movement gained support from both conservatives and liberals for its ability to be both tough on offenders but also limit the number of people sent to prisons, which provided cost-savings (Cullen & Jonson, 2017). Community-control…

dissertation stands as an analysis of Anderson’s work Code of the Streets in relation to the criminological theories of deterrence; rational choice; biological; psychological; control; social learning and labeling. As…

criminals. Is that not considered to be murder? Sentencing a criminal to death does not solve the conspiracies and problems that are left behind. If statistics seem to show that crimes rates are either increasing or not making any difference through deterrence, it does not make sense to kill criminals as a form of punishment. If people would want to get revenge or payback from a person who did them wrong why not leave them in a prison where they will suffer everyday rather than killing them…

In today’s society, hanging has become an obsolete form of capital punishment. Even though with todays methods being more humane and not as violent, people still try to abolish the capital punishment act; the main reason being: that there is no deterrence factor in the death penalty, the death penalty is racially biased, and that it is cheaper to keep someone in prison for life than it is to execute them. And people will argue these facts all day everyday, even though they are all false. To…

their fate lies in their hands. Deterrence is an act that influences people to not do something, creating fear and thus reducing crimes. Many of us are convinced when a particular punishment receives severe consequences that it will deter behavior from reacquiring. Bedau believes “ whatever may be true about deterrence of lesser crimes by other penalties, the deterrence achieved by the death penalty for murder is not measurably any greater than the deterrence achieved by long-term…

Beccaria believed that in order for punishment to be effective, it must be prompt, necessary, and governed by law. According, to the deterrence theory people are most likely to be dissuaded from committing a crime if the punishment is swift, certain and severe. By doing those three things, many assumed that crime will eventually diminish. I feel as though deterrence is necessary but at the extent to which the crime is committed. An individual should not spend two years in prison for stealing a…

retributivism, also known as non-consequentialism, and utilitarianism, also known as consequentialism. I will then analyse three justifications of punishment within the utilitarian approach which are reform and rehabilitation, individual and general deterrence and incapacitation. Retributivism is a sociological perspective of crime which looks at the different forms and changes in punishment. It is a backward thinking approach as it does not look at future consequences of punishment and is…

the population, resulting in social stability. The four main concepts that depict the reasons behind prisons are retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, or incapacitation (Gilmore 2007:14). Retribution and deterrence are closely linked. Retribution keeps functions to stop previous convicts from committing the crime again, based on their knowledge of the prison, and deterrence stops people from committing the crime in the first place because of stories told by released inmates. This is how…

against the concept of holding enemy civilians hostage as well as the social acceptance of deterrence. Later he pushes for disarmament of all nuclear weapons. 2 In order to make any progress it seems the necessary step is a public rejection of the practice of threatening nuclear annihilation in international politics. In addition, the concept of holding civilian centers hostage is an archaic form of deterrence that should be discarded. Lastly, all the nuclear powers need to pursue a path…