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    with those goals. Retribution, deterrence, incapacitation and rehabilitation serves as the goals of criminal law. Deterrence serves to make an example of the offender so that others will not make the same choices. Provides a display for the future by letting others know this will happen if you do what this offender did. It protects the public by putting the offender behind bars and prevent someone else from committing the same offense. Incapacitation is where the community and society…

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    punishment, determinate and indeterminate sentencing, and mandatory minimum sentences. The foundation of sentencing changes its purpose over time. There are five purposes of criminal punishments such as retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, incapacitation, and restoration. Retribution is offenders receive punishments “that they deserved based on the seriousness of their criminal acts.” (Lippman, 2014) In other words, it is a philosophy of “eye for an eye” as a form of…

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    Statute S. C. 674

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    receive, stockpile, retain, own possess or use or threaten to use any chemical weapon’. Chemical weapon is defined as ‘a toxic chemical and its precursors …any chemical which through chemical action on life processes can cause death, temporary incapacitation or permanent harm to humans or animals…includes all such chemicals, regardless of their origin or of their method of production and regardless of whether they are produced in facilities, in munitions of elsewhere.’ Purposes not prohibited…

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    difference from both the retributive and utilitarian perspectives due to the incorporation of the victims as well as repairing a community. These two perspectives are focused on severity, proportionality and vengeance, and on the other hand focused of incapacitation of dangerous offenders and the happiness standard (Greenwalt,…

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    The moral justification for legal punishment finds itself in philosophy through two theories that contrast each other in their complex and thought-provoking ideas: the retributivist theory of punishment (RTP) and the utilitarian theory of punishment (UTP). The RTP focuses on the individual and the crime to justify its proportional punishment. On the other hand, the UTP suggests that maximizing happiness in society is the main goal. The importance of defining legal punishment from just punishment…

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    Mentally Ill individuals have been dramatically increasing inside the Corrections System of the United States and have become a great problem for all prison institutions. According to a piece of writing written by Roy Walmsley titled “[The] World Prison Population List” states that the United States holds approximately 2,239,751 prisoners in penal institutions including pre-trial detainees as of late 2011 (3). That’s almost 22% of people incarcerated world-wide, which is roughly 10.2 million…

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    Pros of Stun Guns For close range self-defense, nothing brings an attacker down more quickly and efficiently then with the taser gun, the intent is not to inflict pain but it is to end the confrontation without loss of life. One Means of incapacitation with a less lethal force option for incapacitating attackers with a well-placed shot. Also when you shock the perpetrators for 30 seconds allowing you to gain control and subdued the individual. Stun guns are inexpensive, often under fifty…

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    The discussion organized into six different issues; deterrence, incapacitation, caprice and bias, cost, innocence, and retribution, portrays thoughts and research that has both opposed and supported capital punishment in the last twenty-five years. In turn, the three-major observations that were derived from this discussion…

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    Public views of punishment for crimes have changed over the centuries. History has shown the differentiation in crime throughout the years, and how they have become more or less brutal. Generally, over time, most societies have moved from the extraction of personal or family justice toward formal systems written by codes of ethics. Societies have also started to move towards the idea of rehabilitation and prevention instead of punishment. Rehabilitation is superior to punishment in a sense that…

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    Radelet and Borg. 2000. The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates. Annual Review of Sociology. Summary: This academic reviewed journal discusses the way incapacitation caprice, cost,innocence, and retribution all surround the outcome of the death penalty. The authors analysis the way historical and Americans debates are changing the meaning of the death penalty; and how these facts, opinions, and arguments are…

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