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THEORIES OF PUNISHMENT IN THE ETHICS OF PHILOSOPHY
Authors: Anupam Mallik
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THEORIES OF PUNISHMENT IN THE ETHICS OF PHILOSOPHY
Anupam Mallik
,
Assistant professor
,
Department of Philosophy
,
Ramkrishna
Ma
h
avidyalaya
,
Kailashahar,Tripura, India.
Theories of Punishment are
a controversial and frequent
ly debated topic. It is
needless to mention that satisfactory justification and practical application of
theories of
punishment is one of the most important and complex problems
in ethics
. But till nowadays
this problem remains unresolved although efforts
have been going on to have a generally
accepted solution to this problem.
So it is a time that we must prepare ourselves for the
change by changing and improving the understanding of morals value systems in general and
the nature of human mind and societ
y in context of the crime, criminal, penalty e.g.,
to take
first step towards an acceptable perspective on these important issues
and to
take the further
step
s
towards the beginning of a new human civilization
. Punishment can be used as a
method of
reducin
g
the incidence of criminal behavior either by deterring the potential
offenders or by preventing them from repeating the offence or by reforming
them into law
-
abiding citizens. Theories of punishment, contain generally policies regarding theories of
punis
hment namely: Retributive ( It makes criminals suffer for what they have done wrong ),
Deterrent ( The aim of punishment
is to stop people from committing crimes ), and
Reformative ( The object of punishment should be the reform of the offender ).
The subj
ect
has been discussed by a number of philosophers
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A. Macdonald, Michel Foucault, I. Ehrlich,
Friedrich Nietzsche, I. Kant, A. Posner Richard, C. D. Broad, T. Hobbes, R.M. Bohm, H.L. A.
Hart, Hugo Adam Bedu, Jeremy Bentham and many others
.