Deterrence

nuclear deterrence morally acceptable? The reason for the controversy surrounding moral acceptability in nuclear deterrence, stems from the devastation nuclear weapons can cause, including high civilian death tolls. This creates a dilemma for nuclear deterrence because of the nature of deterrence itself. It is important to understand at this point that deterrence, by nature, is only effective when the threat is credible. The state has to be absolutely prepared to carry out the deterrence…

two. The concept of general deterrence utilizes the threat of punishment to deter society from crime, and the reasoning behind punishment based on those grounds will be examined in this essay. Rehabilitation rationale will also be analyzed to highlight the respective strength of general deterrence and retribution in offenders receiving the punishment they deserve. The utilitarian and rational strengths associated with the threat of punishment makes general deterrence the most convincing…

States. Prisons have been around for a long time and used for the same functions: deterrence, prevention, and rehabilitation. One of the most common use of prisons is to deter criminals to commit a crime or reoffend. Deterrence is split up into two categories; specific and general deterrence. Specific deterrence is preventing the offender to act out in the future. Prior to the twentieth century, specific deterrence was intended for severe torture and punishment that inflicted pain to…

Deterrence By definition, deterrence refers to the act of enforcing various measure with the main aim of discouraging a specific or particular behaviour within the society. Deterrence is meant to instil fear among the members of the society with respect to a given social based issue. As a result, the majority of people tend to distance themselves from such discouraged behaviour due to the heavy penalties one may face in the case of breaking such an act. Retentionists argue that for law…

argue that “nuclear deterrence” is still relevant in promoting world peace”. The post Cold War era indicates the period when the Collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 to the present. The nuclear deterrence strategy gained more prominence as a military strategy regarding the use of nuclear weapons during Cold War. Nuclear deterrence is a way to inhibit a country’s intended aggression moves by threatening a more powerful adversary with nuclear weapons. The objective of nuclear deterrence is to…

(1) Deterrence theory takes root in the concepts of classical criminology. The theory asserts that people making rational decisions to commit crime as a means of pursuing their own personal interests by increasing their pleasure and reducing their pain. Offenders commit crime because its advantageous. To deter crime, swift, certain, and appropriately severe punishments must be imposed. Individuals will reject the option to offend because they are fearful of the certainty, swiftness and…

weapons tolerated given their overwhelming destructive power? This has been justified by the theory of nuclear deterrence. This theory hypothesizes that if a nation armed with nuclear weapons threatens nuclear retaliation, other countries will refrain from initiating a military attack. It began its life after Hiroshima as the threat to destroy cities. During the Cold War, nuclear deterrence preserved the peace between the two great powers by making the resort to a nuclear war irrational. There…

Justifying the Punishment of a Criminal Offender For decades, the debate on the justification of legal punishment has troubled scholars. The paper, “The Justification of General Deterrence,” written by Daniel M. Farrell adds to this debate by offering a unique take on the justification of punishment. In the paper, Farrell conceives the justification of punishment as “weakly retributivistic” –a balance between the radical form of retributivism and a forward-looking notion of punishment. Farrell,…

In his book, The Land of Open Graves, Jason De Leon explores the policy of ‘Prevention through Deterrence,’ implemented by the government of the US, which aims at decreasing the number of undocumented migrants crossing the US-Mexico border. Prevention through Deterrence focuses on implementing strict border policies on ports of entry, successfully diverging the traffic to the deadly Arizona desert, where migrants have to hide from the border patrol and deal with the climate at the same time.…

Cyber deterrence has been thrown out in the public, governmental, and military sectors for the better part of the first half of the decade, stretching into discussions currently in organizations like NATO, and governments worldwide. The theory is simple: “deter someone from doing something out of fear of repercussion or retaliation.” Theory and concept however, are very different premises and conclusions. Everyone in the information warfare area knows that attribution is a slippery slope, and…