CRM/LAW C7 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Moral Panic, Restorative Justice
7 Feb 2017
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Retribution: getting even, punishment as goal: not concerned with deterrence, sees value in punishment in itself, goal is to punish whether it fixes them. Deterrence: goal to reduce recidivism: recidivism: the likelihood that someone convicted of a crime will commit another crime upon release, many forms of punishment are measured of whether they reduce recidivism or not. Incapacitation: remove from society as only solution: people (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t (cid:272)o(cid:374)trol their a(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, there is no other way to deal with that then to just remove them from society. Restorative justice: repair harm in non-punitive manner: the goal of the syste(cid:373) is(cid:374)"t to (cid:271)e to pu(cid:374)ish, (cid:271)ut to repair the(cid:373), the person that caused the harm to repair that harm. Rehabilitation: intervene in factors that cause law breaking. Early intervention: risk assessment and programming: often propose as an important alternative to early incarceration, people of color are considered a risk, so they pull them into the system, considered racial biased.
