Essay: Aims of Punishment in the Contemporary Criminal Justice System

This essay delves into the significance of the punishment system in protecting individuals and society from crime, examining its historical roots and evolution. It explores the principles underlying punishment, including incapacitation, deterrence, retribution, rehabilitation, and restoration, acknowledging their respective drawbacks and applications. The main body of the essay discusses these principles in detail, highlighting how they are applied in different forms of punishment. The essay further examines the aims of punishment, such as incapacitation and deterrence, and their implications for both offenders and society. It also touches on the concepts of retribution, rehabilitation, and restoration, analyzing their roles in addressing criminal behavior and reintegrating offenders. The essay concludes by summarizing the role of punishment in ensuring societal safety and security, the importance of modifying punishment systems, and the significance of principles like rehabilitation and restoration in reducing crime. It also considers the system's overarching goals and the need for individualized treatment and proportionality in sentencing, with a focus on achieving justice and promoting social order.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
This study is going to show about the importance of punishment system as it protects
individuals and the society to prevent them from crimes and any criminal activities (Graur,
2019). When an individual commit mistake and crimes like robbery, bribe, murder then they are
being given punishments as per the punishment system. When that individuals and criminals get
appropriate punishment then it creates fear in other members, and they do not commit crimes. It
will also show some principles of punishment system such as: Incapacitation, Deterrence,
Retribution, Rehabilitation and Restoration. All these systems and principles have some
drawbacks and are being applied in different types of punishment. As per the principles in
punishment system, they are being given to different types of punishment.
MAIN BODY
Punishment is having the existence from the colonial period which is been continued
form the time of history as the specific method for the criminals in order to have stoppage in
committing the existence of criminal acts in country development. It has been believed that is
sense that the individual have the commitment of the crime so that the individual have the
inflection of punishment to gate the way through the course of indeed (Bode, 2019.). As per the
researcher it has been depicted that the punishment towards the crime committed use to creates
the sense of responsibility and the specific label of suitability in order to take responsibility of
social obligation and development. There is the existence of the punishment all through the aim
in order to have proper level of justification in achieving the level of seriousness of the crime
commitment.
Society and the individual have the specific right in order to have the providence of law
protection against level of crime which is happening in society. In order to provide the punished
to people who are already committed the crime are the individual which is hope of getting the
justice from the both offended and community. In order to have the establishment of proper level
of understanding regarding the nature of punishment, there is existence of voracious theory
which is helping to have decision over motivating in aim of gingivitis of punishment too how
have committed the crime.

System of punishment is having existence in order to have the severance to offenders in
order to provide the protection to public in specific manner. The major aim and purpose of the
providing of punishment to committers are -
Incapacitation
This have the implications of imprisonment or gangling of offenders which is doer n
order to have protection of society and continuity form existing criminals behaviourist. The
isolation of prisoner as euphemist is serious done by judiciary as solitary confinement many of
criminals usually get trauma and get as not being offending (Zhiyuan, 2018). This is considered
of having dual effect which makes removal of criminals from society or the unfortunate effect of
creating recidivists. Many of offender turn out be recidivists as they are been counselled and
goaled with existing of remainder offenders.
Deterrence
The aim of this is bailout providing the preventive of crime by frightening the defendants
or public. In more level of extension it is all about the stoppage of criminals behaviour as per the
prospectus level of development so that can deter the criminals in adding more into criminal
activities This the possible level of punishments helps in committing the most of illegal impacts.
This may be come up with more of educationalist counselling programmes, the further level of
aim is brought victim impact statements into the proceeding of courts in the having the hope that
the offenders will be able to learns the impacts of their criminals behaviourist and seek towards
the rehabilitation.
General Deterrence is having major occurrence due to wide media coverage that can be
able to ave the composition of various level of criminal activities which results on discouraging
reparation of behaviour (Duff, 2015). On the next is that the specific deterrence possible works
in with imposition id punishment so that the offenders can be given the though t in reparation of
such a criminal behaviour.
Retribution
It is having the major concern in order to get the things better. The existing people are
considered to be quite upset about behaviour in order to have sleekness to have revenge. In this
state of mentality to the exacts the level of personal revenge. In ways of obtaining the real level
of revenge there is no need to victims to exact personal revenge. In these ways there can be level
of distribution in order to have obtained the attribution which is inpatient of behaviour in

development of border level of security. On the other hand this there is existence of the major
level of arguing as it is not vengeful system as the concern of victim were not involved.
Rehabilitation
It has been considered as the attempts of changing mindset or morale of different
offenders in order to have avoidance of crime not to be committed of regular basis. This has the
rehabilitation in manner to have reforestation of person to have the performance in better way.
This has consistence of more housecleaning and dictation programme along with regular count
proceeding so that the criminals will have the effects in criminals behaviourist in order to have
sleekness for rehabilitation (McCay and Ryan, 2018). The association of offenders will
analysation have treatments in reduced the effects of rehabilitation n programs and encourage
recidivism.
Restoration
It is called as Restoration or the shamming culture is been used by many cultures in order
to have the engagement to those have the not so social; and criminal behaviour which is being
effected by other. This is based in ways of meningitic the away of conferencing in meeting up
the victims which is actually apologia in ways to have the addressing the various elements which
has been caused by company development. The offender discovered the first-hand impact of
their crime. There is the existence of the reintegration shaming process which in sense have
providence of the feeling that is needed to heard on regular basis. For the offender, it allows
them to empathize with, and take responsibility for, the victim‟s feelings.
As to present status the system is in sense of primarily being interested in order to have
preprepared or solution of the criminal case representation. This is embarked as the feathering in
developing the criminal justice in avoidance of complicity development in making of more
sense. The system doest have belonging to one goal but as the existence in order to have
achievements of many (Soot and Rootalu, 2017). It is major overarching the purpose which is
intended t be more instrumental and symbolic in order to be the change in one who have
performed something worn. The system has the announcement in achieving the goals to have
individual level of treatment for the offender giving them equal basis of treatment. There is
personification veer one imperative way in order to have fashion responses which is based on
individual circumstance or the potential reform.). This is joined with a second imperative, which
is to punish like offences in manner, and in proportion to the harm (offence-based, desert). There

can notion of major sh fitments over the particular level of time which is regarding the preferred
testaments which is having the representation of values. As per the researcher it has been
depicted that the punishment towards the crime committed use to creates the sense of
responsibility and the specific label of suitability in order to take responsibility of social
obligation and development. There is the existence of the punishment all through the aim in
order to have proper level of justification in achieving the level of seriousness of the crime
commitment. There is still the existence of unfolding to criminal justice process in preferments
of punishment values which is having major formation of conflict over the time period (Kerr,
2017). The system should have proper beginning to bring offenders into accountant along with
proper imposition of crime. It is Turing out be more innocent which is allowing victim to be
heard and in ways of receiving financial assassinate in able to be in major level of appropriate
cases. This is continuousness topic of debate which is being majorly considered achieving the
various level of aims and objectivist to provide the values and development to system.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been summarized that punishment system played a vital role
for protecting the society and people from crimes. It also makes them safe and secure when
punishments have been given to criminals as per their type of crimes. It has shown different
punishment systems which shows the way of giving punishments and situations in which they
are being used. Different punishment systems have some drawbacks which need to be modified
and improved for protecting the society from crimes. It has shown several principles such as
rehabilitation, restoration and their importance for reducing crimes and solving issues which are
occurring due to crimes. For imprisonment, incapacitation principles has been shown which has
each details and the way of giving punishment.

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punishment in a neuroscience-based sentencing appeal. International journal of law and
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