The Purpose of Punishment What is the purpose of punishment? Posted July 6, 2011. Share. Tweet. Share. Email. Many people are upset about the verdict in the Caylee Anthony case.

The Delhi High Court has granted relief to a man, convicted for life in 2003 rape and murder case of an 8 year old, whose ...

What is the purpose of punishment? Seriously, I’m curious. I suppose it breaks down into two broad categories: it teaches the person punished not to transgress laws, and it is used as an example ...

Today, punishment in the form incarceration - or in extreme cases, the death party - prevents criminals from victimizing others. Incapacitating Anello serves no purpose.

The answer, of course, is that punishment serves another purpose besides deterrence and incapacitation: retribution. We punish people to reduce crime and sometimes to rehabilitate offenders. But we ...

The central purposes of the death penalty, according to its proponents, are retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation. 123 None justifies the execution of persons with mental retardation. For ...

It was punishment in the sense that I was forced to stop whatever I was doing, but it also had a purpose in that it kept my mind occupied and presented the type of mental challenge I clearly ...

In Arkansas, eight executions have been scheduled in April, starting with two on Easter Monday. I hope the governor will stop them. In debating the morality of capital punishment, a touchstone for ...

The central purposes of the death penalty, according to its proponents, are retribution, deterrence, and incapacitation. 123 None justifies the execution of persons with mental retardation. For ...