The utilitarian theory of punishment fully supports disregarding the origins in sentencing the rioters. The theory specifically focuses on the future with respect to how punishing benefits society. Punishment is justified if society benefits more than the harm caused by punishing the criminal. There are four goals in utilitarian theory. These are specific deterrence, general deterrence, reform and incapacitation. The Bradford Riots produced great social harm. For the sake of the community,…
committed. This is illustrated in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment. The main character, Rodya Raskolnikov, commits murder and then falls apart because of his actions. Not only does he begin to have mental problems, but he falls physically ill as well. However, once Rodya tells a friend what he has done and he gives himself up to the police, he feels much better. Therefore, Dostoevsky wrote this novel to say that actual punishment is far less terrible than the torment one gives…
When you consider the punishment handed out by Odysseus to the unsuccessful wooers and the maids you have to consider the time in which they live. It was a hard time when death was common and there weren’t any courts of law . The victim was Odysseus and he was the judge as well. That may explain the harshness of the punishments. Nevertheless I believe the punishments (death) were unfair and did not fit the crimes. The only person who I believe deserved death, just like Eurymachus said, was the…
Implementation of punishment is one of the key issues that has been problematic throughout history. Recently, prison sentences is the most favorable type of punishment given to criminals worldwide. How much prison time depends on the severity of the crime that is committed. However, there has been new alternative punishments introduced by scholars that claim are more effective and fairer than imprisonment. Graeme Newman argues that corporal punishment should be given through electric shocks. I…
and in this way should be considered responsible. The American legitimate framework, reflecting popular sentiment, holds that capital punishment in essence is not a human rights infringement. The U.S. Preeminent Court has held that capital punishment is not savage and uncommon discipline (Gregg v. Georgia, 1976), even while narrowing the relevance of capital punishment in specific circumstances (Atkins v. Virginia, 2002; Roper v. Simmons, 2005). We call attention to out essentially to note that…
Capital punishment should be abolished because it is too expensive to retain, it is revenge not justice, and it 's possible for innocent people to be executed. The execution of human life should not be something we advocate here in the United States, it’s sad that as a nation we preach peace while still executing our citizens. The millions of dollars being wasted on executions could be spent improving our criminal justice system, and in doing so, improve our country. Not only is the death…
Capital Punishment Capital punishment is the legal authority for executing someone for a crime that they have done. It has been around since the Eighteenth Century B.C. Capital punishment has been the greatest controversial topic in America. People feel that capital punishment is the way to go but people also argue that capital punishment is the best way to punish people for their heinous crimes. Capital punishment came about for the reason to punish people for the crimes that they have…
42 23 November 2015 Death Penalty The death penalty has been around for as long as anyone can remember. The very first established death penalty laws date back as far as the eighteenth century B.C. Many of these sentences were carried out with punishments such as crucifixion, drowning, beating to death, burning alive, and impalement. It was not until the tenth century A.D. that Britain started using hanging as their usual method for execution. This trend would stop for short period of time…
world? The penalty of sexual intercourse without consent rangers from 12 years to a life imprisonment, this is all depending on the jurisdiction and any aggravation factors (Australian Government, n.d.). By the 1870’s the abolishment of capital punishment had a much wider…
The book which was called “On Crime and Punishment” was published in 1764 was the work of Cesare Beccaria and the help of his friends. The book was published anonymously because he was afraid of the political backlash. Beccaria did not even have the book published under his name until he knew that it would be received by the government. The three main points of Beccaria’s theory. 1) Freewill, rational manner and manipulability are what all individuals possess. 2) All individuals will rationally…