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Punishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Punishment is the practice of imposing something unpleasant or aversive on a person or animal, usually in response to disobedience, defiance, or behavior deemed morally wrong by individual, governmen...
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Retributive justice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Retribution. The oldest justification for punishment is to satisfy a society’s need for retribution, an act of moral vengeance by which society inflicts on the offender suffering comparable to that caused by the offense.
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The major reasons for punishment are: reform, deterrence, compensation, and retribution. Punishment for reform is intended to benefit the offender and society by changing the offender into a contributor to society.
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Capital punishment is not retribution enough ... Some people who believe in the notion of retribution are against capital punishment because they feel the death penalty provides insufficient retribution. They argue that life imprisonment without possibility of parole causes much more suffering to the offender than a...
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Since the 19th century in particular, people have put forward what they felt were more enlightened justifications of punishment than simple retribution.
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THE CASE AGAINST PUNISHMENT: RETRIBUTION, CRIME PREVENTION, AND THE LAW, by Deidre Golash. New York: New York University Press, 2005. 240pp. Cloth $45.00. ISBN: 0-8147-3158-9. ... Again, Golash argues that punishment is not the only alternative. Retribution demands a consequence, but that consequence does not...
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