2006-12-15 11:34:03 · 10 answers · asked by Victoria P 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
If you are found to have done something wrong you get punished. What part of that idea is blowing your mind?
2006-12-15 11:36:34 · answer #1 · answered by answerman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what would be the rational in not implementing a punishment upon the convicted. If you have violated some ones rights and have been adjudicated as guilty, then you should be punished according to the law. If there is no consequence for breaking the law then you have anarchy.
Do you have a better solution I'd like to hear it.
2006-12-15 19:39:08 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is no punishment, what is the deterrent? I don't think simple incarceration would stop a rapist or a bank robber, unless you never let them out. Better than in Saudi Arabia, where you get the punishment before the conviction.
2006-12-15 19:40:04 · answer #3 · answered by jeffpsd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you asking "Why should a person suffer punishment if she is convicted of committing a crime?" If so, you're kidding, right?
Do a bad thing, go to your room. If you dislike going to your room, you will stop doing the bad thing. Because you don't care that Mommy is upset about the bad thing being done. So what? But you don't like having to stay in your room. Even if it is just because you have to.
2006-12-15 19:37:33 · answer #4 · answered by sonyack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know it woujld be so much easier and cheaper just to punish them without having to convict them, we could do away with the courts and juries and judges.
But it has something to do with oweing society a debt for breaking the law
2006-12-15 19:40:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What good is a conviction without the punishment or sanction. There is no deterrent effect without punishment.
2006-12-15 20:30:44 · answer #6 · answered by badabingbob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Deterrence by fear. If you are likely to be caught & face punishment for a crime, you are less likely to commit it. If you do it anyway & get caught & do the time, you are less likely to do it again. Obviously it does not work all the time, but it works better than every other method known, especially for that 1st offense.
2006-12-15 19:39:59 · answer #7 · answered by bob h 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Imprisonment is supposed to protect society from the offender and the offender is supposed to learn not to do bad things again from the imprisonment. Prisoners are also supposed to get some kind of treatment/rehabilitation while in jail.
Does any of this happen??
I'm not convinced, but I'm not sure of what alternatives we have.
2006-12-15 19:38:57 · answer #8 · answered by joeanonymous 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To take away your basic right to freedom because you violated one or more "rules"(Laws) that society has chosen to live by. With no laws, anarchy would rule.
2006-12-15 19:43:40 · answer #9 · answered by DON S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well lets see.First we figure out if they did it.Then we apply suitable punishment.
2006-12-15 19:37:12 · answer #10 · answered by Dr. NG 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋