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Rehabilitation and deterrence may be civilized purposes of punishment, but their real-life applicability is limited, at best.


The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 4: Deterrence
Page 9: Limited Utility

NARRATOR

So rehabilitation and deterrence may be “civilized” purposes of punishment, but their real-life applicability is limited, at best.

Still, there are at least three more purposes of punishment.

We may not like to talk about them, and at least one is so uncivilized that you’ll probably never hear it mentioned in court, but we’ll get to them next time in Part 5: “The Three ‘R’s”

Average Joe looking apprehensive, saying “…Removal …Retribution …and (ugh) Retaliation

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