[CRJU 312] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (39 pages long!)

• School: USC, SC, Carolina, South Carolina
• Department: Criminology and Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJU 312
• Professor: Heather Ouellette

Document Summary

Deterrence: a strategy of punishment associated with the classical school (free will rationally thought). There are 2 types of deterrence: specific deterrence can be either be specific punishing an individual so that s/he won"t commit a crime again. Problems: deterrence assumes that an individual makes a rational decision to commit a crime. This is not the case in all circumstances. We have no way of knowing if sever penalties actually prevented crime . There is no way to be 100% sure that someone is rehabilitated and not just lying. Electro therapy, lobotomies (thought to be doing it for the greater good) Retribution: another reason to punish wrong doers is for the simple reason that they deserve it. Eye for an eye revenge? (there is no mark on the harm and harm can be to anyone and by anyone. Retribution targets individual and is done by our system: essentially states that criminals deserve to be punished.