Corrections As A Toll For Justice

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Mary W

 

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September 5, 2013

 

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Today however, the Quakers’ goal of rehabilitation has been overshadowed by what some policy makers call more realistic goals – deterrence, retribution, and incapacitation (cliffnotes). There is no doubt that prison is viewed as a severe punishment for most people. The critical question is whether it is an effective punishment for potential offenders...
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This depends on what motivates potential offenders. The deterrence argument is based on the arguments of economic rational choice theory and the classical assumption that offenders are self – interested, reasoning, rational cost – benefit calculators. However, much of the criminological literature has demonstrated that there are a variety of motivations that shape criminal activity ranging from biological predispositions, psychological personality traits, social learning, cognitive thinking, geographical location and the ecology of place, relative deprivation and the strain of capitalist society, political conflict and social and sub – cultural meaning (Wayne)...
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