CJ 2430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Eye For An Eye

• School: App State
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CJ 2430
• Professor: Barbara Zaitzow

Document Summary

Justifications for punishment: retribution, lex talionis a. i. Tooth for a tooth: form of social vengeance. Incarceration: punish just to keep people out of society, exiled , also called warehousing c. i. putting people in an area like a warehouse, small group of people in community with large crime rates, deterrence, 2 types a. i. Doesn"t want anyone to commit a crime a. ii. 1. a. ii. 2. Life in prison or fines: for retribution. Hopes people don"t want to die for killing someone. Doesn"t work for specific b/c if they have died then then they already can commit another crime. Hopes the person will not use drugs again when they are released. Determinate sentencing is when there is a set amount of time that a person will serve. 2 types of this: presumptive; you can assume you will serve this much time: and mandatory, you must serve this muchtime. Indeterminate sentencing is when there is a range of time that a person might serve.