What’s on the Purposes of Punishment poster
A 5-row table: Aim · Mechanism · Evidence.
The aims conflict; a sentence rarely serves all five at once.
- Retribution — Deserved censure — A normative claim, not empirical
- Deterrence — Fear of detection — Certainty beats severity
- Incapacitation — Restraint while inside — Real, costly per crime saved
- Rehabilitation — Change risk factors — Works best when RNR is followed
- Reparation — Repair to the victim — High victim satisfaction
Educational reference. A sentence chosen for deterrence is not necessarily the sentence that reduces reoffending.
Questions about the Purposes of Punishment poster
- What’s on the Purposes of Punishment poster?
- A 5-row table: Aim · Mechanism · Evidence. The aims conflict; a sentence rarely serves all five at once. Retribution — Deserved censure — A normative claim, not empirical; Deterrence — Fear of detection — Certainty beats severity; Incapacitation — Restraint while inside — Real, costly per crime saved; Rehabilitation — Change risk factors — Works best when RNR is followed; Reparation — Repair to the victim — High victim satisfaction. Educational reference. A sentence chosen for deterrence is not necessarily the sentence that reduces reoffending.
- Who is the Purposes of Punishment poster for?
- Purposes of Punishment belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning corrections can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Purposes of Punishment poster?
- Use it to name which aim a policy is pursuing before asking whether it works. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Purposes of Punishment belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Purposes of Punishment?
- Short Custody or Community, Desistance and Electronic Monitoring sit alongside Purposes of Punishment in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Short Custody or CommunityDesistanceElectronic Monitoring
- Is the Purposes of Punishment poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Purposes of Punishment downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Purposes of Punishment poster print at?
- Purposes of Punishment is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Purposes of Punishment loses nothing.Printing guide
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