punishment versus rehabilitation

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write a paper that debates the effectiveness of punishment compared with the effectiveness of rehabilitation of convicted offenders in prison and under community supervision. Address the following points: deterrence of crime effect on victims and victims' families effect on the offender social effect on society fiscal effect on society.

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Running head: PUNISHMENT VERSUS REHABILITATION

Punishment versus rehabilitation
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Introduction
The society always has expectations of the criminal justice system to either rehabilitate or
punish offenders or criminals. The acknowledged objectives of the criminal justice systems in
the U.S include punishment, rehabilitation, deterrence, and incapacitation. However, punishment
has remained the chief objective for achievement when handling offenders in the United States.
Theorists have throughout history debate on the effectiveness of combatting crime by viewing
both sides of punishment and rehabilitation. Everyone in the human society desires to see justice
prevailed for not only the victims but also the offenders. This essay seeks to explore the
effectiveness of punishment and rehabilitation in curbing crime in the society. The essay covers
effectiveness of both punishment and rehabilitation on crime deterrence the effects on the
individual/offender, effect on both the victim and their families, the social effect and the fiscal
effect on the society in the management of the already convicted individuals in jail and those
under community supervision.
Deterrence of crime
The debate has shown much concern on the deterrence of crime. According to Morris and
Rothman (1995) punishment of the convicted individuals has been the most conventional way of
curbing crime or misconduct in the criminal justice system. Most crimes or misconduct in the
society is reportedly caused by self-driven deviance and ignorance of the underlying or linked
laws. As a result, the society deems punishing the offender as the most effective way of
administering equal justice to the victim. The threat of punishment to an offender, however
severe, will hardly deter crime for an individual who believes or has a mindset that they would
slip away with it after all.

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Moreover, the punishment would hardly deter crime from individuals reported to be
extensively overwhelmed by emotions or a form of disordered thinking concerning their caring
about the consequences of their conduct. This logical reasoning makes people undermine the
effectiveness of embracing punishment in society. Sutherland, Cressey, and Luckenbill (1992)
affirm that the sole objective of the executing punishment in the prison systems to not only hold
the offender accountable for their misconduct but also the community. Punishment is regarded as
a way of teaching the society and particularly those planning to commi...


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