relevance of moral responsibility to reward and punishment

Question 1

what are the two approaches toward crime?

Answer 1

-crime is a mental condition: an illness that can be treated

2.crime is deliberately anti-social behaviour and should be punished

Question 2

crime is a mental condition

Answer 2

-view accepts that there’s determining factors in why a person may commit crime
-individual might’ve been brought up in domestic environment of violence, sexual abuse and general ignorance
-lack of education big factor
-in uk divorce rates high, parental responsibilities shared, this can mean child exposed to more variety of parental views and instruction, parents can be absent.
-lack of parenting or bad parenting might have engendered a criminal disposition.

Question 3

treatment if crime is a mental condition

Answer 3

-treatment should therefore be therapeutic - aimed at helping criminal rather than retributive
-harsh punishment Is inappropriate as really criminal sum of failures of parents/society
-capital punishment wrong
-therapy centres offer criminal chance for reform and allows them to break free of their criminally and opt for new life

Question 4

crime deliberately anti social behaviour

Answer 4

-crime may punished for number of reasons :
1. retribution (compensates victim, allows criminal to pay)
2.deterrent (signifies society’s disapproval and acts as a detterent
3.responsibility-responsible for your own actions
4.reform- costly, should reform victims not criminals
5.protection