The Importance Of Criminal Retribution

Retribution

Currently, most people are convinced that retribution serves as the best response to crimes and criminal activities. Researchers indicate that there has been a general strengthening of the attitude of the public with regard to crime over the last two decades. In addition, the researchers say that there has been a rise in the social acceptance of retribution towards criminal acts. Retribution, often perceived as the “ just deserts “ entails a complex ideology of punishment in which there has to be some form of punishment for any type of crime(Lambert & Clarke,2015). In addition, retribution asserts that the type of punishment given needs to be in proportion with the harm that the crime caused. The retribution ideology is based on

By definition, deterrence refers to the belief that society has the ability of halting any criminal activity, by ensuring that it makes the punishment more severe than the gains of the crime (Lambert & Clarke,2015). Deterrence takes place in two forms; the specific deterrence and general deterrence. the difference between the two is that in specific deterrence aims at individual criminals. In this regard, by ensuing that the punishment is harsher, the chances of the offender repeating the same crime in the future is reduced(SAGHAFI,2012). On the other hand general deterrence is used in the public where the society aims at making an example of the offender(Lambert & Clarke,2015). Essentially, the point is to make the other people learn the lesson, to avoid committing the same crime. A good example of deterrence is punishing a person that stole something from someone else by making the criminals stay without food for an entire week. This form of punishment aims to show the offender that stealing did not have any benefits that outweighed staying hungry for a whole week. They would therefore reconsider before stealing again. Showing this to the public will also warn the others from stealing, lest they suffered the same

However the proponents argue that in most cases, the offenders show remorse after they have been sentenced to death. They take the time to repent show their remorse ad according to Smith, (2015), most of them show spiritual rehabilitation. The proponents therefore they argue that by accepting the deaths sentence as a punishment, the offenders gain the ability of expiating their evil acts and also avoid more punishment in the next lives (SAGHAFI,2012). Although this argument seems farfetched, researchers argue that, the offenders that are in the each row experience some form of