CRM 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Crown Colony
6 Feb 2016
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The law: what the cjs applies and enforces crim. law is designed to protect society from actions or behaviours it considers harmful or potentially harmful to collective life. There are several different mechanism through which the law is thought to work to achieve these aims - these are the logics of punishment: Retribution - punished with just measure of pain (you deserve to be hurt yourself) Deterrence - classical crim beccarian principle in your rationality will assess whether crime is worth it or not and signal to society that this will happen to you as well so think before you act. Rehabilitation - improving your mental health/ skills level/ social bonds/ root of your behavior that will reduce likelihood of crime. Incapacitation - might just take you out for you to less likely to offend. More repetitive your criminal behaviour, more likely your incapacitation + release you when you"re ready to be released.
