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5 - Punishment

This document discusses different forms of punishment throughout history and their purposes. It describes ancient forms such as death penalty, torture, degradation and banishment. Early prison discipline included hard labor, deprivation, uniformity and corporal punishment. Modern punishments discussed are imprisonment, parole, probation and fines. The purposes of punishment mentioned are retribution, atonement, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation.

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5 - Punishment

This document discusses different forms of punishment throughout history and their purposes. It describes ancient forms such as death penalty, torture, degradation and banishment. Early prison discipline included hard labor, deprivation, uniformity and corporal punishment. Modern punishments discussed are imprisonment, parole, probation and fines. The purposes of punishment mentioned are retribution, atonement, deterrence, incapacitation, and rehabilitation.

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PUNISHMENT

PUNISHMENT

It is the redress that the state takes against an offending member
of society that usually involves pain and suffering.
It is also the penalty imposed on an offender for a crime or
wrongdoing.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT

Death Penalty – this was affected by burning, beheading, hanging,


breaking at the wheels, pillory and other forms of medieval executions.
Physical Torture – affected by maiming, mutilation, whipping and
other inhumane or barbaric forms of inflicting pain.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT

Social Degradation – This means putting the offender into shame or


humiliation.
a. Furca – form of torture which is a v-shaped yolk worn around
the neck and where the outstretched arms of the convict were tied to.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT

Banishment or Exile – This is the sending or putting away of an offender


which was carried out either by prohibition against coming into a specified
territory such as an island to where the offender has been removed.
Other similar forms of punishment like transportation and slavery.
E A R LY F O R M S O F P R I S O N D I S C I P L I N E

Hard Labor - productive works.

Deprivation – deprivation of everything except the bare essentials of


existence
Monotony – giving the same food that is “off” diet, or requiring the
prisoners to perform drab or boring daily routine.
E A R LY F O R M S O F P R I S O N D I S C I P L I N E

Uniformity – “we treat the prisoners alike”. “The fault of one is the fault of all”.
Mass Movement – mass living in cell blocks, mass eating, mass recreation, mass
bathing.
Degradation – uttering insulting words or languages on the part of prison staff to
the prisoners to degrade or break the confidence of prisoners.
E A R LY F O R M S O F P R I S O N D I S C I P L I N E

Corporal Punishment – This is done through imposing brutal punishment


or employing physical force to intimidate a delinquent inmate.
Isolation or Solitary Confinement – non-communication, limited news,
“the lone wolf”.
CONTEM PORARY FORMS OF PUNISHM ENT

Imprisonment – This includes putting the offender in prison for the


purpose of protecting the public against criminal activities and at the same
time rehabilitating the prisoners by requiring them to undergo institutional
treatment programs.
CONTEM PORARY FORMS OF PUNISHM ENT

Parole - a conditional release of a prisoners after serving part of his/her


sentence in prison for the purpose of gradually re-introducing him/her to
free life under the guidance and supervision of a parole officer.
CONTEM PORARY FORMS OF PUNISHM ENT

Probation – a disposition whereby a defendant after conviction of an


offense, the penalty of which does not exceed six years imprisonment, is
released subject to the conditions imposed by the releasing court and under
the supervision of a probation officer.
CONTEM PORARY FORMS OF PUNISHM ENT

Fine – This is an amount given as a compensation for a criminal act.

Destierro – This is the punishment of banishing a person from the place


where he committed a crime, prohibiting him to get near or enter the 25-
kilometer perimeter.
P U R P O S E S / J U S T I F I C AT I O N S O F P U N I S H M E N T

Retribution – the punishment should be provided by the state whose


sanction is violated, to afford the society or the individual the opportunity
of imposing upon the offender suitable punishment as might be enforced.
Offenders should be punished because they deserve it.
P U R P O S E S / J U S T I F I C AT I O N S O F P U N I S H M E N T

Expiation or Atonement – it is punishment in the form of group


vengeance where the purpose is to appease the offended public or group.
P U R P O S E S / J U S T I F I C AT I O N S O F P U N I S H M E N T

Deterrence – punishment gives lesson to the offender by showing to


others what would happen to them if they violate the law. Punishment is
imposed to warn potential offenders that they can not afford to do what the
offender has done.
P U R P O S E S / J U S T I F I C AT I O N S O F P U N I S H M E N T

Incapacitation and Protection – the public will be protected if the


offender has being held in conditions where he cannot harm others
especially the public. Punishment is effected by placing offenders in prison
so that society will be ensured from further criminal depredations of
criminals.
P U R P O S E S / J U S T I F I C AT I O N S O F P U N I S H M E N T

Reformation or Rehabilitation – it is the establishment of the usefulness


and responsibility of the offender. Society’s interest can be better served by
helping the prisoner to become law abiding citizen and productive upon
his return to the community by requiring him to undergo intensive
program of rehabilitation in prison.

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