{"id":156,"date":"2012-10-17T22:21:52","date_gmt":"2012-10-18T02:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=156"},"modified":"2023-08-12T14:16:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T18:16:48","slug":"25-retribution-whats-it-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lawcomic.net\/guide\/?p=156","title":{"rendered":"25. Retribution: What’s It Worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Proportionality<\/p>\n\n\n


The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 5: The Three ‘R’s\u00a0
Page 5: Retribution<\/p>\n

NARRATOR<\/em><\/p>\n

Instead, we base the severity of your punishment on the severity of your crime.<\/p>\n

Stealing a million dollars is punished more severely than shoplifting.<\/p>\n

Judge sentencing a businessman to “20 years state prison” and a teen girl to “20 hours community service”<\/em><\/p>\n

Giving someone a black eye is punished less severely than putting him in traction.<\/p>\n

Average Joe with a black eye, “less than” sign, hospital patient in full-body cast<\/em><\/p>\n

Intentionally murdering one person is punished more severely than killing a family in a car accident.<\/p>\n

Bloody hatchet, “greater than” sign, car coming around mountain curve in wrong lane into oncoming traffic<\/em><\/p>\n

This PROPORTIONALITY\u2014this sense that the punishment must fit the crime\u2014is the hallmark of\u00a0RETRIBUTION<\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Average Joe wearing an eye patch while the State pokes someone else’s eye out *blort*<\/em><\/p>\n

This is your classical “eye for an eye” purpose of punishment, and it’s what most people are thinking of when they talk about getting “JUSTICE.”<\/p>\n

Justice is not about making you nicer, or deterring potential acts in the future, or even about taking you off the streets\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026It’s about you getting what you DESERVED.<\/p>\n

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