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Bryant 1 MaKailyn Bryant Professor Scott Garland CJ-112/21EW5 May 23, 2021 Four Purposes of Punishments There are four different types of punishments: deterrence, incapacitation, retribution, and rehabilitation. Each one has a different effect on a certain individual. If I had to rank these with the first being the most important to the least important, it would be deterrence, incapacitation, rehabilitation, and lastly retribution. Deterrence is defined as, “an action of discouraging an action or event through instilling doubt or fear of the consequences.” Growing up from a child, everyone has experienced deterrence. Your parents would say things such as, “Tell the truth, otherwise you’ll get in trouble.” or “Don’t steal because if you get caught, you will go to jail.” Phrases such as these has in fact fear in my heart growing up and has taught me right from wrong. Speaking from experiences, I personally believe that a good number of individuals listen to their parents, guardians, or whomever they look up to. To put this in a criminal justice perspective, I believe this type of punishment is the most effective because if you’ve ever thought about committing a crime, you would think twice before doing it and consider the consequences and embarrassment that comes behind it. As for the least important, retribution. Retribution is defined as, “Punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or criminal act.” This reminds me of the Code of Hammurabi during the Babylonian era. During this time period, citizens of Babylonia would carry out cruel punishments for things such as adultery, stealing, and kidnapping. For example, if you committed adultery, your punishment was death by drowning, if you steal, they would cut your hands off so that you’ll never steal again. If you kidnapped someone, your punishment will be execution. All punishments were done publicly. In my opinion, I think this is very cruel back

Bryant 2 during those times and even now. Even now in the twenty first century, people believe that if you kill someone, then the same thing should happen to you. Hence, an eye for an eye. I personally don’t agree with this because killing someone else isn’t going to bring back the loved one lost or reverse what happened to the victim in the situation. This is where capital punishment comes to play. Capital punishment is “the legally authorized killing of someone as punishment for a crime.” In the four types of punishments, capital punishments only fit in incapacitation and retribution. Both types of punishments deprive and inflict pain on the criminal to prevent the crimes from happening. These punishments can consist of hanging, a firing party, lethal injection, electrocution, gas inhalation, and beheading. These methods are used across the world in places such as the Philippines, China, and the United States. This brings me back to my first opinion about how deterrence is the most important and why I don’t agree with capital punishments. The whole purpose of capital punishments is to deter crimes. But in reality, capital punishments aren’t actually deterring crimes as they should. You would think someone would think twice about committing a heinous crime after they just witnessed someone getting the death penalty. However, not everyone thinks the same. In my opinion, I think this gives criminal more motivation to be smarter and more careful with their crimes so that they will not be caught and receive this punishment. This also doesn’t give any one the opportunity to change and turn their life around. Let’s just say, if you committed a crime that resulted in the death penalty, wouldn’t you want another chance at life? Wouldn’t you want a second chance? Works Cited

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