Week Twenty - Punishing Crimes and Response to Other Wrong Doing Flashcards
Punishing Crimes…
Main discussion will be about punishment for crimes – ‘hard treatment’
Responses to wrong-doing take many forms and include reprimands, warnings, measures of assistance and support
‘Punishment’ (in this broadest sense) often has a number of meanings and purposes and the various motives of those involved are not always easy to disentangle
Response to other wrong doing…
Responses to ordinary misbehavior include withholding approval, scolding, restrictions
We all experience this as children, influencing our sense of right and wrong and our ideas of blame and responsibility
Punishing as parents and being punished as children are always emotionally significant
These experiences influence later attitudes to criminal punishment and perhaps some of this ‘emotional charge’ remains
