What is the point of punishment?

Miz~Anime

Punishment is so you (hopefully) will be more careful and not make the same mistake more than once and learn from the mistake you made. It supposedly increases work ethic, and better your chances in life because in life there is a natural consequence for everything you do.
Good luck,
Seinna

john

Homework again? Punishment makes an example to other people, and gets a bit of revenge for the victims, and community.

1992dodge

Your answer would be discipline.
I think that was a full sentence.
P.S. For the guy below me, To not do what again?

Barbara Doll to you

Pour encourager les autres

Julian L

well to teach whoever is being punished not to do it again

Michael

Punishment is the most universal form of teaching that has existed since the beginning of time.

Look at animals, the parents will punish their young (sometimes rather harshly) for any mistake. The animal learns. No higher education or therapy required.

Obviously, people are not animals. But it is useful when a lesson needs to be given to someone you cannot communicate with fully. Example, a child who does not fully understand reason. Anybody (with the exception of some mental impaired indivduals) will fully understand a punishment means they just did something wrong.

trojans

I have several friends with the LAPD. Very sad, most criminals do not get to the punishment phase in our judicial system. They bust them and they get out before any process. Usually due to over crowding or high volume in the courts.

Bobby B

it depends on the crime and the exact person

I think in general, jailtime is there to dissuade people from breaking the law.

Howerver, if someone is truly dangerous to society, then it's to keep people safe.

Ryan B

Your asking what the point of criminal justice is? Well, possibly so that rapists and murderers and theives arent living freely among us and people cant do whatever they choose without consequences.

Soma

Punishment exists to deter someone from repeating an action, or decrease the likelyhood of said actions reptition. It is an operant response meaning punshment links an action, with a unwanted consequence.

Pretty simple.

HH PATEL

Dear friend,
Punishment is for to set an example for others not to repeating an illegal action and ultimately to help society as well as Innocent people.
So it is MUST>
ok

nana .know it all

to make the law/rule breaker aware of what they have done and to reflect that they were wrong

Rommel_Returns

if the fear of punishment is greater than the desire to do crime.....then you don't do crime. it really is that simple. IE: if 'instead of doing ordinary prison you faced hard labour with no TV no smokes, no luxuries at all and you served your sentence in an unaccountable third world country where if you refused to work that time was simply added to your sentence, then frankly crime would drop to next to nothing over night. why do you think third world crimminals flood over British borders in their thousands every week. its because we have no real punishment.

Pfo

It provides incentive to convince you to not do something again.

dulcineahawksworth

to change behaviour. This is done in different ways throughout life depending on your age/gender/location and usually the IRS does it once you get to the point where you think you are done with it.

Cheers!

donkeyeyes

societies used to publicly stone or flog the offender in the town centre. Tatooing or marking a person so they stood out. If you stole and they caught you they would chop your left hand off. Indians would banish them from the tribe. We put them in jail and hope that is enough to make them change. If it was working they wouldn't still be making new prisons.

Anthon A

to rehabilitate someone and make them understand that hte law must be followed but the law is not always right. i got racially abused by about 7 white guys yesterday night and i was by myself and had no weapon to protect myself, what would of happend if they had beaten me to death. owning weapons is illegal where im from

bittermeds

Penalism doesn't work, frequently, until it is well aged and reaches a certain maturity.

cbrown122

Punishment is supposed to be a deterrent and when done properly.. it works.

In definition, " A sanction--such as a fine, penalty, confinement, or loss of property, right, or privilege-- assessed against a person who has violated the law."

Glanville Williams said that punishment when done overboard brings about "nothing but bad social effects."

Thinking along that line goes with my first statement. Punishment is in place to elicit a certain response. Given that response the punishment is working; if not working, bad responses will follow.

silke- encourage? Or discourage?

kdd

I think punishment in different forms ofcourse is for safety, say for instance, children. also if you break a law then you need re-enforcements to learn from your mistakes. Its the human and worldly way of guilt and coming to terms with right and wrong.

Alix J

The point of punishment is so that you learn your lesson next time. Most people if the y do somthing wrong in their own home will be punished. If you break the law you will also be punished. Sometimes people don't learn from theri mistakes but that is what they are meant for.

Rat Man

To put out evil in terms of the majority.

sandison

Punishment serves a dual purpose: recompensing an individual or group for egregious action(s) and secondly dissuading the offending party from repeating their action.

Deshawn W

I THINK PUNISHMENT IS MENT TO SHAPE SOMEONES BEHAVIOR. I THINK IF SOMEONE IS PUNISHING YOU , THEY ARE TRYING TO GET A CURTAIN RESULT FROM YOU.

Javed

Yes I do agree, I have read the related thing, you can also read it out for your knowledge:
Pakistanâ€™s 9/11: President Zardari
http://www.thebiztime.com/2008/09/25/pakistans-911-president-zardari/

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