Corrections And Retribution Term Paper

¶ … Retribution Corrections and Retribution

Retribution is considered as the penalty that is imposed on an individual or a group of people for the crimes they committed with an aim of making them experience the same amount of pain or loss as the victim of their crimes.

Retribution programs are set up to correct people who go against the law of justice. It is normally set for individuals who do something that is illegal. For this case, the offenders suffer for the wrong-doing; the aim of retribution is to take action on people who infringed the rights of other individuals. This paper analyzes the purpose of retribution programs conversely to the appropriate ways of how those purposes can be accomplished; it also illustrates some methods of retributive justice models which are applied to the offenders.

Various philosophers have come up with contested arguments on the value for or arguments against retributive punishment with each side domesticating its ideology in many ways.

There is a group of philosophers and scholars on criminology who argue that, retribution is a form of logical components of punishments. However, other philosophers combine retribution and punishment as one thing, for this reason there are various rules that logically bound retribution. All those arguments from different philosophers contribute to the justification of punishment as they

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Therefore, for this case, some arguments of the philosophers allowed retribution to be the purpose. In most cases, retribution is seen as unpleasant infliction of emotional and at time physical pain to the wicked. The logical idea here is that, the guilty have to offer something to the person who is injured (Shoham, 2007).
Retribution program is important since it satisfies the community sense of justice. However, it may be of disadvantage to the affected members in terms of how expensive it is, for example, there are tough prisons which are costly to the individual as well as inhibits the individual's change or improvement.

Retribution also tends to make the offenders more dangerous given that there is severe and harsh punishment ascribed this kind of justice system.

Methods of retribution using the justice model

Retribution is pegged on the principle that people should always receive all that they deserve. In short, they deserve the fruits of the labor if they work hard, while those people breaking the law deserve punishment. It emphasizes that people should be treated the same way they choose to treat others. Retribution using the justice model for this case aims at restoring both the victim and the offender so as to remain in their suitable positions relative to one another. Punishment is acceptable as an answer to the past event of wrongdoing. It acts to emphasize the broken rules and balances the justice scales.

The existing methods of retribution that have far reaching impacts are death penalties, life imprisonment as well as long-term jail sentences. These are common among civilized governments including the U.S.A. justice system. There are however other systems where more irrational retributive systems are applied like the stoning to death, dismemberment or casting away of offenders depending on…

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References

Redekop, P. (2008). Changing paradigms: Punishment and Restorative Discipline. London:

Herald Press.

Shoham, S.G. (2007). International Handbook of Penology and Criminal Justice. New Yolk:

Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Michelle Maiese, (2004). What Retributive Justice is. Retrieved June 1, 2012, from http://www.beyondintractability.org/bi-essay/retributive-justice


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