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According to Hoskins (2010), the legal foundation of punishment is morally challenging as it usually involves harsh treatment, sometimes morally unacceptable, to the offender. What makes it acceptable to subject an offender to such kind of punishment is a big moral question.Customarily, the rationale behind punishment is either retributivist or consequentialist. Consquensialists argue that punishment is necessary towards achieving a noteworthy purpose, an example of which is crime reduction. Retributivists, on the other hand, argue that punishment is a basic or natural response for doing something wrong. However, abolitionists argue that punishment is morally unacceptable and thus both defenses are not valid. The question now is: how should the society respond to wrongdoings?
According to Hobbes (2010), the imprisonment condition may be so unbearable that the offender would be discouraged to misbehave or commit a crime, but this does not guarantee improvement in behavior.
Deterrence, on the other hand, is based on the idea that man freely chooses his actions in such a way that his pleasure would be maximized and his pain minimized. Committing criminal acts to solve one's problems becomes less likely as one realizes the certain, swift and harsh punishment for committing such acts. According to Oleson & Mackinnon (2015), any kind of sanction has a likely deterrent effect on an individual as long as one recognizes its certainty, severity and swiftness.
According to Hobbes (2010), the utmost aim or purpose of rehabilitation is to bring back an offender to society by means of education, treatment and training. The importance of rehabilitation is shown by the modern-day jargon of "reformatories," "therapeutic community," and "correctional facilities" that are now being used to describe prisons, jails, and incapacitation institutions. It concentrates on the specific characteristics of an offender that require intervention and treatment.
Restoration involves the process of putting back the offenders, the victims, the community, and the government, if possible, to their…
Punishment: Too Much or Not Enough The purpose of the punitive measures effected by the criminal justice system has changed over time, especially as that system operates in America. There are several ideological stances to consider in regards to such punishment, which largely incorporate criminal, sociological, and moral viewpoints. The ebbing and swaying of various tenets espoused at different times and with varying popularity have largely resulted in today's criminal justice
Rule-breakers received swift punishment. Deviation from the norm was not tolerated by law or by social convention. Just because a moral standard helps create a stable society does not mean that moral standard is just, good, or right. Finally, the use of coercion itself denotes an unnatural moral standard. It takes relatively little coercion to ensure that most people don't murder or steal. Most children internalize the types of
Moral Development & Gender Bias The influence of moral development on the perpetuation of gender bias among males and females in the school setting In analyzing the moral development that humans undergo from childhood to adulthood, it is important to look into the models and theories in psychology that served as the foundation of this field. Moral development among humans can be categorized into different stages, in the same way that human
Moral Messages in Children's Literature I chose four children's classics: Charlotte's web (1952) by E.B. White, and other three children's fairy tales, two by Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm (Cinderella and Snow white and the seven dwarfs) and one by Charles Perrault (Sleeping Beauty). These were among my personal childhood favorites. Looking back on all four as an adult, I see many similarities, but also many differences, in these books' inherent moral
As Kohlberg proposed, children undergo "a sequence of qualitative changes in the way an individual thinks," (Nucci 2002). As children encounter new environmental stimuli including new peers, new social group situations, and new challenges to the developing ego, moral character begins to emerge. While it would be impossible to assess the Rising Star Montessori academy based on the Web copy on their site, it is safe to say that
Moral Disengagement Within the society today there are different people with their own different behaviors. Some might turn out to be meaningful people but others end up being a bother to the society. This paper will look out moral disengagement in the society.it will explain using behavioral theories why a person is more likely to drop out of the society to become a terrorist as opposed to dropping out to become