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    class‚ today I will be talking to you about the 3 main forms of punishment and the form of punishment that lawmakers should seek to develop in Australia. The three justifications for punishment currently used in our society today are retribution‚ deterrence and rehabilitation. Our society today uses these three forms of punishment attempting to lower crime rates Origins and overview of the three forms of punishment Retribution Retribution is the first of the three forms of punishment that I will

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    Principles of Sentencing There are five general aims or functions or justifications of punishment: 1. DETERRENCE There is a belief that punishment for crime can deter people from offending. There are two forms: - Specific deterrence is concerned with punishing an individual offender in the expectation that he will not offend again. - General deterrence is related to the possibility that people in general will be deterred from committing crime by the threat of punishment if they are caught

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    a form of public display for crime deterrence. Examples in the past include beheadings‚ hangings‚ and now lethal injection. Modern research has been done around the issues of deterrence and whether the death penalty has any deterrent effect on homicide rates. This begs the question of whether it is ethical to execute a person just to deter others from committing crimes such as murder. “Researchers have come to many different conclusions regarding deterrence. Some have determined that the threat

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    Mechanisms and Control 6 11. Internal Corporate Governance Controls 7 12. External Corporate Governance Controls 7 13. Fraud 7 14. Prevention of Corporate Fraud 7 15. Fraud Deterrence (prevention of fraud) 8 16. Fraud Deterrence VS Fraud Detection 8 17. Deterrence Correlation 8 18. Deterrence VS Prevention 9 19. Fraud Triangle 9 20. Breaking the Fraud Triangle 9 21. Statement on Auditing Standard No. 99 (SAS 99) 9 22. The Coso Model 10 i. Control

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    Five Main Goals 1 Five Main Goals of Punishment In criminal justice there are five main goals of punishment. These goals are retribution‚ deterrence‚ rehabilitation‚ restoration‚ and incapacitation. Punishment is almost like revenge to those who have disobeyed the law. Retribution is defined as getting even with the perpetrator. Victims of a crime are unable to take things into their own hands and punish the perpetrator‚ that is where the state steps in and punishes them for the victim.

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    Essentially this implies that deterrence theory still works‚ at least between state actors. After all‚ no nuclear power has ever been attacked by another state‚ and the same can’t be said about attacks by nuclear powers on non-nuclear states. Although until ‘Global Zero’ (which is the campaign to eliminate nuclear weapons from the earth) has reached their goal‚ one would find it hard to say for certain that nuclear weapons were strategically obsolete. The fact that deterrence theory has worked so far

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    1801 Texas Law Review June‚ 1997 W. Page Keeton Symposium on Tort Law MIXED THEORIES OF TORT LAW: AFFIRMING BOTH DETERRENCE AND CORRECTIVE JUSTICE Gary T. Schwartza Copyright (c) 1997 Texas Law Review Association; Gary T. Schwartz Introduction Currently there are two major camps of tort scholars. One understands tort liability as an instrument aimed largely at the goal of deterrence‚ commonly explained within the framework of economics. The other looks at tort law as a way of achieving corrective

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    the rights of accused criminals against society’s interest in imposing punishments on those convicted of crimes. The U.S. criminal justice system deals with punishment of those in violation of the law in several ways; retribution‚ incapacitation‚ deterrence‚ and even the possibility of rehabilitation are all different options that are utilized by the U.S. today with those convicted of crimes. After reading selections from Emile Durkheim’s “Rules of Sociological Method”‚ I realize that although so much

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    Purpose of punishment.

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    Introduction Within the English legal system there are four main theories of punishment; retribution‚ deterrence‚ incapacitation and rehabilitation. The retributive theory looks back to the crime and punishes because of the crime. The remaining three all look forward to the consequences of punishment and thereby hope to achieve a reduction in crime. They are therefore often termed consequentialist or utilitarian theories. The boundaries between these theories are far from clear‚ containing sub-categories

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    Significance of Cuban Missile Crisis -This was an intense period where nuclear war could break out at any time. -A rash decision by any side could spark off war between the USSR and USA and in turn nuclear weapons might be deployed. -Fortunately‚ the leaders made rational decisions to resolve the crisis. -After the Cuban missile crisis‚ both sides realized the danger of nuclear war and began to talk more about peaceful co-existence. -A hotline was established bet the USSR & the USA

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