M16 Flashcards
Is the punishment upon a person who has violated the law
Penalty
The infliction of some kind of pain or loss upon a person for a misdeed(I..e., the transgression of a law or command.
Punishment
An aye for an eye
See talion
Punishment it holds that punishment is justified by the moral requirements that the guilty make amends for the harm they have caused to society.
Retribution theory
Retribution theories generally maintain, as did the Italian criminologist
Cesare Beccaria(1738-94)
Punishment Is justified by its deterrence of Criminal behavior and by its other beneficial consequences for individual as well as for society
Utilitarian theories
Under the utilitarian theories
1.General deterrence
2.Individual deterrence
Reclusion perpetua
20 years and 1day to 40years
Reclusion temporal
12years and 1day to 20years
Prision mayor
6years and 1day to 12 years
Prision correctional
6months and 1day to 6years
Arresto mayor
1month and 1day to 6months
Arresto Menor
1day to 30days