CRM 1301 Lecture Notes - Panopticon, Social Control
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Greatest good for the greatest amount of people : maximise happiness and minimize unhappiness. The moral worthiness of any action is to be measured through this principle of happiness. Two things guide us increase pleasure minimize pain. Changes the principle greatest happiness of the greatest number. The goal of the government is to minimize that. In many ways there are 4 systems in which you can inflect pain and pleasure: physical, political, popular/moral, religious. Sanction a sanction is a source of obligatory powers or motives of pain and pleasure . Thus pleasure and the avoidance of pains are the ends which legislator has in view . Beccaria one main thing for punishment is deterrence. You can"t get back to crime they already committed. Satisfaction is a benefit in consideration of injury provide cosumpation for injury or closure. It is crucial it must be part of punishment. Re-establish everything in the condition it was before the offence .
