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Deterrence in Criminal Justice

   

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Deterrence and Criminal Justice

Table of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................3Comparison between two different deterrence ideas.......................................................................4Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8References......................................................................................................................................10

IntroductionDeterrence is one of the central concepts in the subject of criminal justice globally. In simplewords Deterrence means discouraging or condemning criminal activities by threatening theperson committing the crime to be received serious ramifications. Deterrence is one of the longstanding concepts which have acted as the mainstay for practicing criminal justice. Deterrence asa concept has been there in use from the ancient times when the roman kings used to punishpeople for wrongdoings against the state. In this way deterrence has becomes such a strongaspect for criminal justice across the world. Deterrence came into being with greater importanceas in the earlier days of king most of the people feared being received with major punishmentthat prevented them from committing any kind of crime. Most of the opponents of the capitalpunishment have opposed strongly against deterrence stating that it doesn’t have major impacton the person and hence it could be said that capital punishment doesn’t have any positive impacton crime. In the contemporary world it is stated that punishment is the not the best of ways toeliminate crime or prevent people to commit crime and hence show deterrence doesn’t workanymore (Braga and Weisburd, 2012). In the present argumentative essay there are two differentideas of deterrence namely theory of punishment and impulsivity. The essay will discuss thesetwo concepts which would help to compare and contrast deterrence and state why deterrencedoesn’t work anymore.

Comparison between two different deterrence ideasOver the years the federal systems have largely dependent on punishment in order to focus ondeterring the range of crime to a large extent. Over the years there are number of people indifferent countries who are incarcerated for crimes but the rate of crime doesn’t seem to end. Thesentencing systems have been largely used to focus on improving the offenders but it has beenseen that deterrence cannot work in the contemporary world. While the criminal justice systemas a whole makes a deterrent effect but it is important to understand that most of the criminaljustice systems focus on applying the punishment but it could be said that opposing scholars statethat punishment doesn’t work anymore. In broad view punishment could be expected to affectdeterrence in one or two ways (Willison and Warkentin, 2013). In Australia it could be seen thatthe crime rate has not reduced even after the application of punishment that is the maximum rateof punishment the rate of crime has not reduced. The standard counter agreement againstpunishment is that one could execute innocent person and hence it is important to assess thatdeterrence may not work. With punishment it cannot be said that criminal activities have reduceddramatically but with liberal criminal justice policies deterrence have been strongly denied.Capital punishment in different countries is different but in most of the situations it could be saidthat capital punishment doesn’t affect the mindset of the criminals to a large extent. Rationality isone of the main concepts in the deterrence and it has to be understood that the two differentconcepts of deterrence namely theory of punishment and impulsivity (Jackson et al., 2012). The deterrence theory mainly states that people obey law because they are afraid of punishmentand hence tend to obey law. The deterrence theory mainly states that people do not commit crimebecause they are afraid of law but because of being motivated to by moral sense. Hence in thiscase it could be said that a person is motivated and dissuaded from committing a crime if thepunishment is swift, certain and severe. While deterrence is focused on preventing wrong doersfrom committing crimes on the other hand it is effective to set examples for the others to deteragainst crime. Basically deterrence is based on different ideas but the theory of punishment isone of the common ideas that work in deterrence (Kleck and Barnes, 2013).

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