Lets hear your opinions on these punishments for crime?

Question

Ok what you think of these punishments as a way to deal with crooks.

House breaking-First offence 2 years hard labour ,any further burglaries and then they break your hands with a large hammer and also 5 years in jail.

Pre mediated murder-To be executed in the same manner they killed their victim.

Car thiefs-They have to join a specially made army unit for 3 years undertaking dangerous missions in Afghanistan and the like.

Rapists-They are welded into a chasity belt for the rest of their days.

Woman who falsley cry rape-Same as above

This is just me thinking of some hardcore detterents.

What do you think or do you have some ideas yourself?

Answer 1

I think that your ideas are excellent but doubt they will ever happen due to the old favourite "human rights" but what about the rights of the man on the street??
Personally, I would bring back public flogging and use murderers - or other criminals who are never going to be freed (ie; rose west, yorkshire ripper) for medical experiments to help research and drug testing.
I would also put anyone over 16 on an ASBO directly into 5 years army service.

Answer 2

i think the primary object of "punishment" is not so much punishing the perpetrator as protecting the rest of us from their actions,
the secondary object is to deter others
and finally,
the third object is to cause the perp so much grief that they are deterred from repeating an offence

what you have to be careful of is that you are sure the person is guilty, and the punishment should be reversable if it is subsequently discoverd that they are innocent.

In many developing countries, crime is almost absent, the prison conditions are awful, the punishments severe for the few that do,
In Ghana, the driver of a vehicle that kills someone will be mobbed, if he is lucky the police will arrive in time to save his life.

Your suggested punishments seem somewhat harsh, but are more likely to deter than what like we have here in England!

I think child sex offenders should be segregated from society for good.
Your average rapist,mmmm I would cut his todger off, but it may be better to castrate him.

Thank goodness for CCTV and DNA matching, more convictions can be proved these days.

Answer 3

How about 10 years for Tony Blair for being the Prime Minister,,plus another 10 years for marrying Cherie

Answer 4

Yes sounds ok to me we have to get tougher on crime the soft short sharp shock hasn't worked we must try to take away the luxury of tv snooker gyms and hope to deterre offenders from repeating the crime.
No tea or coffee just hot or cold water and one meal and one snack (a biscuit) a day. It would be cheaper to keep them inside and they should be made to work harder.

Answer 5

all sound good but a slight problem with yur punishment for pre-meditated murder. to hand our the punishment would in itslef be a premeditated murder? so you would have an ever lasting circle of murders for the murderers?

Answer 6

A stay in Afghanistan anywhere but the capital and they would have something to cry about. Don' know if I can go along with hammering some ones hand, but have no objections to your punishments.

Answer 7

Pretty extreme but I can sympathise with the sentiment. Definite hard time punishment. Criminals just do time, hang out with other offenders, get out and do it all again. They should suffer, really suffer and be under no illusions that jail is a time wasting exersise until they get out. I would put them in front of victims and victims parents, spouses, children etc and make them answer for their crimes. Show them films of the funerals, make them attend a post mortem of a murder victim. Who knows it may tap into some part of their brain that still has human remorse.

Answer 8

Good question, good comments. Any chance you might run for president?

I agree with your assessments by the way.

Answer 9

What punishment would you lay down for bad spelling?

Answer 10

Using harsh sentencing as a deterrent presupposes that the offender believes that he will be caught. Most offences are committed without regard to the consequences and without the belief in getting caught - therefore you can make the punishments as bizarre and gruesome as you want. They won't deter someone who doesn't believe they will suffer them.

Indeed, there comes a point in devising such punishments when the offender is ignored and the bloodlust of the person suggesting takes over. Do you think you are coming close to that?