⚠Crime and Punishment ⚠

Types of Punishment

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Death penalty

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Incarceration

Probation

Retentionist view

Abolitionist view

Singapore, Pakistan, Egypt

Australia, Cambodia, Canada, Spain

Death penalty to be upheld to serve as a warning to potential criminals of heinous crimes

Rehabilitation

The need to repair the harm caused by crime rather than punish people

A necessary institution to separate people whose actions deviate from the proscribed laws of a given society

Does not seem to bring down crime rates, but in fact more repeated offenders are seen in prisons

Intended as alternatives to incarceration for eligible offenders not deemed a threat to public safety

Parole violators accounted for over a third of all prison admissions in 2005 and "half the US jail population is the consequence of failure of community supervision."

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What is crime?

Breaking of rules or laws for which some governing authority has set a punishment

Community service

Offender does unpaid work that benefits the local community rather than serve a prison term

Types of crime

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Crime against Humanity

Crime against the Person

Crime against Property

Crime against the State

Aims of Punishment

Deterrence

Rehabilitation

Put people off committing crimes

Actual punishment

Opportunity cost of punishment

Offender becomes productive member of society

Safety of public

Juvenile

Home arrest

Juvenile Hall

Counseling

community service

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Factors leading to crimes

Depression

Family conditions

Regionalism

TV violence

Racism

Politics

Poverty

Overpopulation

How to reform criminals?

yellow ribbon project

18 chefs - provide employment opportunities

changing the perception of society

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Changing society's point of view of criminals

Absurd crimes in SG

Being gay

Walking naked in one's house

chewing gum

Not flushing toilets after use

Oral and Anal sex

Committing Suicide