Crime & Punishment in Singapore

Introduction

4 guiding principles of the criminal system

ensuring due legal process

protecting the community

enforcing the laws effectively

reforming offenders

general trends

Crime rates have generally been dropping

Only cybercrime is on the rise, contributing to the overall 4% increase in crime in 2015

due to severe penalties that are handed out for crimes that may seem petty

Debatable Policies

Marital Rape

Censorship

Criminalising Suicide

377A

Administration of Justice Protection Bill

Prostitution

Methods of Punishment

Caning

Capital Punishment

War on Drugs

Michael Fay incident