UNIT 4 AC2.2 DISCUSS THE AIMS OF PUNISHMENT

An in-depth focus on the aims of punishment (AC2.2 - UNIT 4)
Content covered:

• Aims of punishment overview
• Retribution focus (including proportionality, expressing moral outrage, links to right realism and a functionalist approach)
• Criticisms of retribution as an aim of punishment
• Rehabilitation focus (including community sentences, support, reform, types of rehabilitation, links to cognitive theories, Eysenck’s personality theory, Bandura’s social learning theory and Skinner’s Operant Conditioning theory)
• Criticisms of rehabilitation as an aim of punishment
• Deterrence focus (including individual deterrence, general deterrence, severity vs. certainty and links to rational choice theory, situational crime prevention strategies and social learning theory)
• Criticisms of deterrence as an aim of punishment
• Public protection (Incapacitation) focus (including examples of public protection, imprisonment, automatic sentences, indeterminate sentences, IPP sentences, links to biological theories such as Lombroso and links to right realism with an example)
• Criticisms of public protection as an aim of punishment
• Reparation focus (including material and social reparation, financial compensation, unpaid work, community orders and restorative justice, links to labelling theory and a functionalist approach)
• Criticisms of Reparation as an aim of punishment
• Exam question practice (including worksheet for students)