Punishment for Crime. Concept of Punishment  equal treatment  punishment fits the crime  society shares some responsibility for crime: does society.

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Punishment for Crime

Concept of Punishment  equal treatment  punishment fits the crime  society shares some responsibility for crime: does society have some responsibility? IN CONTRAST with individualistic nature of humankind

Purpose of Punishment  Retribution: pay back  Deterrence: inflict pain upon people—prisons  Reform: make people do it in a different way—cleaning, re-painting, etc.  Crook calls Retribution and Deterrence “UTILITARIAN”

Rights of Victims  correct damage done  compensation for suffering  should state make restitution for crime?

Capital Punishment  Old Testament allows it for various offenses  New Testament has only one reference, the woman caught in adultery  Should criminal be made to suffer? That is, torture the murderer to death to punish him/her for the crime?

(cont’d)  Does it deter?  Is the murder rate lower?  When state executes more people, there are more crimes—murder rate increases  Cost factor: it is more expensive to execute somebody than to leave them in prison for life  It encourages murder