Unit 4 Topic 3 Flashcards
What is retribution based on?
Retribution is an idea based on an offender’s behaviour is deserving of punishment.
What does it not seek to do?
It does not seek to alter future behaviour merely to inflict punishment in proportion to the offence, this is supported by the Sentencing Council, which provides guidelines for the courts on a range of appropriate punishments.
How is it achieved?
This is supported. (achieved) by the Sentencing Council, which provides guidelines for the courts on a range of appropriate punishments.
Give an eg. of retribution
A person who causes racially motivated injuries will serve a harsher punishment than a random act of violence.
What biblical expression is retribution based on?
The punishment should fit the crime, it is based on the biblical expression ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life’’.
What is the most literal form of retribution?
The death penalty for murder, i.e., take a life, lose yours as offenders are getting their ‘just desserts’
explain how retribution has increased for death by dangerous driving over the last 32 years.
For example, longer prison sentences for causing death by dangerous driving were justified in this way. The maximum prison sentence was increased from 5 to 10 years for this offence in 1993, and in the Criminal Justice Act 2003 it was increased again to 14 years.
Explain how retribution like to right realism
It may be linked to the criminological theory of right realism. This theory says crime is a rational choice and if a person chooses to commit a crime, they deserve to be punished for that crime
