CRIM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sex Offender Registry, Restorative Justice
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Directed at a specific type of offender or offense. Sets and example for others in society. You watch your friend go to jail for a crime, you realize you don"t want it to happen to you too. Incapacitation: prevents the offender from having the opportunity to commit the same crime, removal from society, transportation. Put on ships and sent people away. Retribution: payback, not trying to accomplish anything, but offender needs a consequence for what they did. Rehabilitation: purpose is to make criminal a law abiding member of society, address needs (ex. A person steals because they are poor: medical model. Looking at underlying cause for why a person commits criminal behavior. Restorative justice: restores control to a victim"s life. Restorative justice helps them regain trust: mediation between offender and victim. Victim will tell them why the crime was hurtful. Offender explains why the crime happened (abused as a kid, alcoholism, etc. : restitution. Direct payment to the victim for damages.
