{"id":108,"date":"2012-10-17T13:19:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T17:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=108"},"modified":"2023-08-13T03:28:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T07:28:02","slug":"14-general-deterrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"14. General Deterrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-109\" src=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deterrence03.png\" alt=\"Specific deterrence is when punishment is meant to make you think twice about committing the same crime again. General deterrence is meant to make others think twice about committing it, as well.\" width=\"500\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deterrence03.png 500w, https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Deterrence03-214x300.png 214w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"bg-margin-for-link\"><input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69e0f79b053134064826547' value='69e0f79b053134064826547'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69e0f79b053134064826547' value='Transcript'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69e0f79b053134064826547' value='Close Transcript'><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69e0f79b053134064826547' ><br \/>The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law <br \/>Chapter 4: Deterrence\u00a0<br \/>Page 3: General Deterrence<\/p>\n<p><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and also to deter OTHERS from committing that crime at all.<\/p>\n<p><em>The State looking up from spanking Joe to gesture with her hairbrush at everyone else<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>THE STATE<\/em><\/p>\n<p>That goes for the rest of you, too!<\/p>\n<p><em>NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(&#8220;General&#8221; Deterrence)<\/p>\n<p>Like rehabilitation, deterrence is a fine idea. It&#8217;s fairly civilized, and it seems like it OUGHT to work&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;but DOES it?<\/p>\n<p><\/div><\/div><a id='bg-showmore-action-69e0f79b053134064826547' class='bg-showmore-plg-link  '  style=\" color:#9ca7a5;;\" href='#'>Transcript<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,33,1],"tags":[5,4,9,6],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-criminal-law","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-criminal-law","tag-deterrence","tag-punishment"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}