Punishment and Rehabilitation

Document Type:Essay

Subject Area:Law

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The primary purpose and objective of the criminal system are to correct the criminal who in many cases may be as a manifestation of the psychosocial maladjustment for which the society is responsible for. These essays will touch on punishment and rehabilitation and the method that is most suitable for the correction of wrongdoers in our correctional system. The term chastisement refers to the mindful infliction upon a disturbing individual in the society mainly aimed at the welfare of the said individual. In other terms, punishment has been considered to be a means of social control. Many people would agree that punishment and hurting someone is wrong. It is solely by compelling the criminal to agonize the penalties of his movements so that one accords them the privileges of an equivalent inhabitant.

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Rendering to (Auerhahn, 1999) to do anything other than punishing offenders make wrongdoers less than equal and even less than human. Rehabilitation is said to be a consequential approach to punishment of offenders. This form of punishment is considered by thinkers as benefiting many. Thus even if one were to be punished through the infliction of pain, then the act is deemed to be good. The use of chemicals to take away the aptitude of criminals to obligate corruption is also incapacitation. An example of such punishment is the use of chemicals to castrate sexual offenders. It is important to note that the chemical castration does not involve the use of physical pain in the punishment of the offender but rather the incapacitating state of the chemical.

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