Differentiation in Punishment Criteria for Men and Women in Traditional and Modern Societies

Should women be punished
according to different criteria
to men in traditional societies
and in modern time

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
BACKGROUND ............................................................................................................................1
Punishment in England in 17th century and how women's were subjected and unfairly treated
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Punishment in during convict era 18th and 19th century and how it affected women..........3
Punishment in modern era and its effect on women...............................................................4
Why punishment should be different between men and women especially if they are both
considered for similar crimes.................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES ..............................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
Punishment in context to the specific crime is important in order to make peoples aware
about the bad impact of the crime and its results. The main purpose behind that is control of the
crime within the community (Armanios and Ergene2018). The level and type of the punishment
for men's and women's in similar crime is different, due to their greater sense of vulnerability. In
this report analysis of the different type of the punishment and the differentiation criteria is done.
Such as evaluation of the punishment of 17th century and how women's were subjected to it.
Study of the punishments of convict era and modern era, along with the analysis of its impact on
women's. Argument in the support of punishment differentiation among men's and women's is
consider in context to similar crime.
BACKGROUND
Punishment is the act of imposing a consequence or penalty on the individual as result of
their wrongdoing and crime. Below are some arguments about the punishment, explaining the
concept of punishment in UK.
Maria M. (2015) according to this literature punishment and crime are the intertwining
terms, as crime is related to the act, which is consider as the inappropriate and punishable by the
society and other regulators. Punishment is the process educating and implementing the specific
action for punishing the suspect according to their crime. There are the different consequence of
punishment on the basis of crime. Punishment is important to manage the well-bing of society
and reduction of the peoples harm or crime (Nguyen, 2019). Type of the punishment and its
consequence are keep changing from the 17th century.
Throughout British history punishment was enforced from the 1965, at that time death
penalty was abolished. During that time the main type of punishment in Britain was hanging.
Before that in 13th century there were very cruel type of the punishment. Which was followed by
the criminal hanging and further punishment to their body through beheading, burning etc.
Justification for the punishment is including, incapacitation, deterrence and retribution,
some another measures for the under the punishment criteria is isolation of the criminal in order
to prevent further more crime. Within the country that is legal to give the death punishment to
the criminal how killed some one. This is very right punishment as this can help to stop them
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and other doing, this can make the peoples aware about the crime and its results. By the helps of
which further more crime is can be prevented (Pimm, 2019).
Punishment in England in 17th century and how women's were subjected and unfairly treated
Old Bailey (2018) on the basis of this literature during the 17th century Misdemeanours
were punished with the different type of non-capital punishments. In any case the available
punishment were circumscribed by the legal status of the criminal activity. Juries were
manipulating punishment through the use of partial verdict. Death penalty was the type of
punishment in context to the bloody code, for which criminal have to sentenced to the hang.
Branding was the punishment for the peoples who is having benefit of clergy ended,
criminals were branded on the thumb in order to prevent them for receiving this benefit more
than once. In context to the situation at which women suspect is pregnant Death Respited for
Pregnancy rule were used. According to which they should sentence to plead their belly. Other
then that there were some other punishments like Burned at the Stake, Drawn and Quartered,
Death with Dissection and Hanging in Chains, Imprisonment as Reform, Hard Labour, House of
Correction, Insanity etc.
Women's in the 17th century for the crime of scolding and other minor
transgressions, Dunked in the water by the sheriff. pregnant convict during that period subjected
to the jury to determine the crime and most of by the time of the birth women's punishment
avoided by the criminal justice system during the months of pregnancy. During the 17th century
women received mercy from the executioner prior to burning on the stake. Women for the crime
like murder and treason were burned at the stake according to the punishment criteria of that era.
Black witches prosecuted for their black magic crime and white
witches sought for their ability to heal
through herbs and natural remedies. During the time of Elizabethan, women's were unfairly
treated for the small mistakes, such as for spoke their minds and sounded off too loudly, women's
were punished via a waterboarding and cucking or ducking stool (Dagger, 2018).
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