3 Discussion Questions with Student Responses along with a short English assignment

CRJ 410: Corrections

Week 2 | Discussion

"Perils in Sentencing" Please respond to the following:

Identify and discuss each of the seven goals of sentencing. Next, examine two of the goals and analyze whether you believe that the goals of sentencing are met and if the consequences that the goals represent result in law-abiding citizens. Justify your response.

Part 2: Student Response

Eryn Lipson

RE: Week 2 | Discussion

1) revenge

2) retribution

3) just deserts

4) deterrence

5) incapacitation

6) rehabilitation

7) restoration

Deterrence When humans decide how to act, we tend to look towards the consequences of our actions. Punishment, when factored in as a consequence, can therefore prevent (deter) crime. What is especially interesting about this idea is that it may not require that a punishment be actually used, as in virtue of knowing the punishment, the crime will rarely occur. Thus, utilitarians take special favor in deterrence, as not only does it lower the overall crime rate, but it often does so by imposing minimal punishment (as punishment is an evil in itself).

Rehabilitation Punishments to shape the future behavior of the criminal are considered rehabilitation. Utilitarians favor rehabilitation because it salvages one more person from becoming a criminal and transforms them into a productive law-abiding citizen. Deterrence, on the individual level, may have a similar effect to rehabilitation (criminals stop committing crimes), but the motive is different. Rehabilitation means an individual no longer wants to commit the crime(s) in question. In contrast, individual deterrence means a criminal is simply afraid to commit the crime(s) again.

https://web.uncg.edu/dcl/courses/viceCrime/pdf/m7.pdf