Punishment

Punishments are commensurable when the correctional impacts of every can be measured, and an unmistakable origination shaped, of how much the torment created by the one misses the mark regarding or surpasses that delivered by another. Assume a man set in a circumstance to pick between a few unlawful acts,— he can get a whole of cash by robbery, by homicide, or by illegal conflagration: the law should give him a rationale to swear off the best wrongdoing; he will have that thought process, on the…

Cruel and unusual punishment is, by definition, “such punishment as would amount to torture or barbarity, any cruel and degrading punishment … any fine, penalty, confinement, or treatment that is so disproportionate to the offense as to shock the moral sense of the community” (Cruel and Unusual Punishment). The number of prisoners in the United States has climbed in 2016 to a staggering 2.2 million, up from 200,000 in 1972. A full 36 percent of those incarcerated are behind bars for nonviolent…

relation to justification of societal punishments were prevailing methodologies. First, the main justifications for punishment using the retributive perspective were that punishment was in place due to the offender deserving to be punished for a specific wrongdoing. Greenwalt states that there is a simple justification for using this perspective, if there is an offender who has violated the law that others have to follow, then the offender is worthy of punishment to reestablish the moral order…

to the punishment of criminals. Many have different views on how a criminal should be punished for their crimes committed. This paper will look at several schools of thought when dealing with punishment and apply these philosophies to the purpose of corrections. When society learns of a persons wrongdoings, immediately thoughts of how that person should be punished come into mind. Most do not utilize a particular school of thought or philosophy when trying to determine what punishment is…

society is capital punishment. Capital punishment is taking the life of another human for committing crimes at the capital offense level. There are many people who disagree as well as agree on capital punishment. Some say it is cruel and unusual punishment others believe the crime should fit the punishment which in some cases death is the punishment. Many people have their own opinions on capital punishment. I am going to specify on why people believe we should keep capital punishment and why…

justification behind the concept of punishment takes many different forms. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, the primary rationale behind the Puritans’ punishment of Hester Prynne, the accused adulteress, is retributive, in proportional to the nature of the transgression. The Puritans intend their punishment of ostracism and forced visibility of the letter “A” to match Hester’s crime of adultery by shaming her with a sense of damnation. However, ironically this punishment brings an unintended…

In the eyes to many philosopher’s punishment is seen as a correction method. Regardless of the crime committed, it is still viewed as pain inflicted upon another. Whether it is verbal, physical or emotional. Every state has their own ideologies about why and how an individual should be punished for their crimes. Furthermore, philosophers Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham propose the theories of punishment for how to deal with intentional crimes. This paper examines both theories as well as…

containment and confinement. Inmates are highly adaptive and should be provided a meaningful life while in prison. Punishment is not the responsibility of prisons, changing behavior is. Prison can become safer when inmates are allowed to have some sort of meaningful purpose. There is no doubt that punishment is the concept of barbarians. The threat of confinement and confinement alone are punishment, anything else is comparable to the Romans sending lions after Christians in the arena.…

punished. I was shocked to read about the many forms of torture and a method of punishment for what we consider in today’s society low risk offenders or first time offenders. For example, getting your hand chopped off for stealing a piece of bread or fruit. I once worked at a super market and I cannot recall a day where I didn’t see someone try to steal packs of steaks or whole chickens. If those mid-evil forms of punishment still existed today I can’t imagine…

Punishment Foucault describes the shift in punishment as “to be enclosed, to be deprived of light and to and to hide.” The Panopticon is meant to keep the prisoner from causing more crime, by letting them think that they will always be watched by the person in the tower found in the center. The cells without the actual bars act like its own personal stage. Foucault mentions that the prisoner is always alone, never communicated with, and always being watched. The side walls are what keeps them…