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Crime and Punishment
BillieTheBot
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My lecturer for criminal law today made a very good point about state punishment for breaking the law- why should they do it?
The philosophy falls into two nice groups- Kantian philosophy, which decrees that people should be punished for doing bad things, as it is their free will to impinge against others' free will, but that this punishment should be no more and no less than what is deserved; and Benthamite philosophy, which argues that people should be punished by loss of amenity (e.g. loss of money, loss of freedom) to compensate for the nation's loss of amenity.
On a random tangent, it scares me that Great Britain has, per capita, the most people on life sentences than anywhere else in Western Europe.
Personally, Im normally quite Benthamite in my politics, but for this time Im Kantian:)
The philosophy falls into two nice groups- Kantian philosophy, which decrees that people should be punished for doing bad things, as it is their free will to impinge against others' free will, but that this punishment should be no more and no less than what is deserved; and Benthamite philosophy, which argues that people should be punished by loss of amenity (e.g. loss of money, loss of freedom) to compensate for the nation's loss of amenity.
On a random tangent, it scares me that Great Britain has, per capita, the most people on life sentences than anywhere else in Western Europe.
Personally, Im normally quite Benthamite in my politics, but for this time Im Kantian:)
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In other countries am I correct in thinking life sentence is a lot longer than here ? What would someone get for life in another country say for Murdering their partner ?
Because it is the states role to protect the citizens it serves, including from eachother.........
What if they cannot be rehabilitated what happens then ?
Lets say Joe Bloggs has been imprisoned for 6 years, he has served his 6 year sentence but the prison warden knows that he has not been rehabilitated. He knows that soon as he is released he is going to re-offend? Would that be used in a court of law if and when he did go out and re-offend the next time. Would that influence the judge if he did re-offend and get caught ?
i don't think there are many people that you can realistically say are going to always be criminals, i think in most cases there is a chance of changing their course for the better, especially in the case of more minor crimes.............
But I'm not sure if must people would be happy with just an apology ? Would you if you‘ve been mugged?
I think that might work with a few people but meeting over a cuppa with the person that mugged ya :eek2: