Punishment
9 important questions on Punishment
Disciplining populations to the demands of the economy
Affirming moral standards and societal boundaries
War & international sanctions
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Other social policy interventions
Rationales for the death penalty
- Deterrence
- incapacitation
- retribution
- enforcing morality or religious ideology, exercising the symbolic power of the state and suppressing populations
Classicist view on the death penalty
Positivist view on the death penalty
Critical authors view on the death penalty
Critical issues of punishment
- The punishment of children and women as they are more vulnerable in the cjs and in prison in terms of harm and impact on families
- privatisation an managerialism are about using a private sector ethos to drive standards and efficiencies in criminal justice
- the politcs of law and order have some influence on the nature of punishments use
- dealing effectively with mental health issues that are linked to offending or a consequence of the nature of punishment
- resource and staff shortages impact the likelihood of developing rehabilitative pathways for offenders
- processes of penal reform, decriminalisation and abolitionism
- wider patterns over time and internationally
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