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criminological theories - Coggle Diagram

- - - - ensures compliance to social norms
    - - reinforces societal v
      - values and acceptable behaviour
    - - provides closure to victims and society
  - - - purpose: often used for control, power and to instil fear
      - examples
        
        Roman crucifiction
        
        Hammurabi's code: 'an eye for an eye'
    - - churches purpose: influence of religious morality on punishments
      - punishment as a spectacle: public events meant to deter others
        
        eamples
        
        the use of stocks in town squares
        
        witch trials and burnings
    - - more rational and human punishment
    - - early modern prisons began to emerge as alternatives to corporal punishment
  - - - specific deterrence - discouraging an individual offender from a repeating their offence
      - general deterrence - discouraging society by making an example out of offenders
      - efe crime, particularly for crimes committed in thfctiveness - mixed results in deterring