⚠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