Examples Of Punishment Vs Conservative Punishment
Liberal vs Conservative Debate
Opening Statement-
Punishment or rehabilitation? 2/3 of prisoners reoffend within 3 years of leaving prison, and usually end up coming back with a more serious of violent offense. (Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works., James Gilligan, 2012) Incarceration is not meant to be fun whatsoever. The purpose of punishment is to show denunciation for the offender’s wrongdoing, and to clearly sentence his criminal actions. We punish to retribute; not to help a person change for the better. The crime he or she committed was his or her choice, now it’s their turn to pay the consequences. We still have to punish a robber, yes he/she can be truly sorry and even if he/she would never offend again, but this we cannot tell …show more content…
If the response to those who break rules was to give them something they wanted, more money for example, criminals would not consider punishment to be a response to their actions, but to reduce future violations. If an actual punishment never followed threatened punishment, the threat would lose significance.
While in prison inmates are subject to rules set by prison officials; committing an infraction and found guilty these are some examples of punishment. Time and solitary confinement, removal of accumulated good behavior time, transfer to less desirable prison jobs, confiscation or removal of personal items or transfer to another prison. (Crime and punishment inside prisons, Ed Grabianowski)
Making penalties equal for similar offenders would disregard those between the same offense and avoiding useless punishment.
An estimated 2/3 (68%) of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within 3 years of their release from prison, 3/4 (77%) were arrested within 5 years.
Many states are trying to encourage reforms that reduce judicial discretion and reduced parole to determine date of …show more content…
Punishment helps lead to an avoidance of the bad behaviors. It isn't being done in a revengeful kind of way, we do it so hopefully those actions never happen again.
The other side says that rehabilitation decreases crime rates but that is false. There is little evidence that it even works at all. After rehabilitation became a theory in the 1950’s, crime rate increased severely. By the 1960’s, crime had risen to unpredicted levels.
People for rehabilitation say that criminals can learn from their mistakes without punishment. Which may be the case, but only 10% of criminals actually choose to do so
The opposing side thinks that keeping a criminal in a cell is wrong and they should have more freedom, but confining an inmate to a cell keeps them in there alone to think about what they have done wrong and learn from their mistakes.
For rehabilitation says that it gives a criminal a chance to learn and change their behavior in order not to commit a crime. But if you give them that freedom, who says they won’t do the same offense
Opening Statement-
Punishment or rehabilitation? 2/3 of prisoners reoffend within 3 years of leaving prison, and usually end up coming back with a more serious of violent offense. (Punishment Fails. Rehabilitation Works., James Gilligan, 2012) Incarceration is not meant to be fun whatsoever. The purpose of punishment is to show denunciation for the offender’s wrongdoing, and to clearly sentence his criminal actions. We punish to retribute; not to help a person change for the better. The crime he or she committed was his or her choice, now it’s their turn to pay the consequences. We still have to punish a robber, yes he/she can be truly sorry and even if he/she would never offend again, but this we cannot tell …show more content…
If the response to those who break rules was to give them something they wanted, more money for example, criminals would not consider punishment to be a response to their actions, but to reduce future violations. If an actual punishment never followed threatened punishment, the threat would lose significance.
While in prison inmates are subject to rules set by prison officials; committing an infraction and found guilty these are some examples of punishment. Time and solitary confinement, removal of accumulated good behavior time, transfer to less desirable prison jobs, confiscation or removal of personal items or transfer to another prison. (Crime and punishment inside prisons, Ed Grabianowski)
Making penalties equal for similar offenders would disregard those between the same offense and avoiding useless punishment.
An estimated 2/3 (68%) of 405,000 prisoners released in 30 states in 2005 were arrested for a new crime within 3 years of their release from prison, 3/4 (77%) were arrested within 5 years.
Many states are trying to encourage reforms that reduce judicial discretion and reduced parole to determine date of …show more content…
Punishment helps lead to an avoidance of the bad behaviors. It isn't being done in a revengeful kind of way, we do it so hopefully those actions never happen again.
The other side says that rehabilitation decreases crime rates but that is false. There is little evidence that it even works at all. After rehabilitation became a theory in the 1950’s, crime rate increased severely. By the 1960’s, crime had risen to unpredicted levels.
People for rehabilitation say that criminals can learn from their mistakes without punishment. Which may be the case, but only 10% of criminals actually choose to do so
The opposing side thinks that keeping a criminal in a cell is wrong and they should have more freedom, but confining an inmate to a cell keeps them in there alone to think about what they have done wrong and learn from their mistakes.
For rehabilitation says that it gives a criminal a chance to learn and change their behavior in order not to commit a crime. But if you give them that freedom, who says they won’t do the same offense