Punishment

Question 1

Rehabilitation

Answer 1

Change offenders behaviour to discourage reoffending

Question 2

Deterrence

Answer 2

Prevent people from committing crime again

Question 3

Restorative justice

Answer 3

Make offenders make amends with victims of their crime

Question 4

Protection of the public

Answer 4

Incapacitation - takes offenders out of society

Question 5

Boundary maintenance

Answer 5

Reinforce societies idea of right and wrong behaviour

Question 6

Garland

Answer 6

In the 1950s the state practiced ‘penal welfarism’ where offenders were rehabilitated. Argues we have now entered a new era of ‘punitive state’ which seeks to control crime and punish

Question 7

Functionalist view

Answer 7

Laws are a representation of a collective conscious, where society can only function if there is a shared system of values that tie society together

Question 8

Marxist view

Answer 8

Laws are a representation of ruling class ideology and punishment as part of the repressive state apparatus which keeps people in their place

Question 9

Weberianism

Answer 9

Only the state has power to punish offenders. This means that punishment is based on impersonal rules and regulations set by bureacracy