PHI 115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Insanity Defense, Retributive Justice, Extreme Measures
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Punishment it is important to recognize that legal punishment is different from other. Punishment and the death penalty (chapter 15) (1/3) The united states has seen a decreasing trend in the crime rates over the past several years. Although there are many cities where crime is still high or lots of problems exist, the national crime rate continues to decrease, with some cities seeing no murders in intervals of several days. Experts have many different possible reasons, from economics, to our prison systems being full, to aggressive policing (stop. Standard justifications for the death penalty include utilitarian claims about the deterrent effects of capital punishment. The purpose of legal punishment is to hurt and not be enjoyed. The most famous form of legal punishment includes imprisonment, with other forms being fines or court-mandated community service. So, when someone does something what the law forbids, the criminal law must have some threat attached to breaking it.
