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Retributive justice is a legal concept whereby the criminal offender receives punishment proportional or similar to the crime.As opposed to revenge, retribution—and thus retributive justice—is not personal, is directed only at wrongdoing, has inherent limits, involves no pleasure at the suffering of others (i.e., schadenfreude, sadism), and employs procedural standards.
Intrinsic Retribution: Offender deserves punishment because there is intrinsic good in the guilty suffering. Lex Talionis: To restore the balance between offender and victim. Unfair Advantage Principle: To restore the balance by the imposition of extra burdens on those who have usurped more than their fair share of benefits.
Penology concerns many topics and theories, including those concerning prisons (prison reform, prisoner abuse, prisoners' rights, and recidivism), as well as theories of the purposes of punishment (deterrence, retribution, incapacitation and rehabilitation).
To the masses, he represents “just retribution” against what they believe to be a money-hungry healthcare system. ... Pennsylvania’s oldest correctional facility, until his next court ...
The report said that retribution for snitching led to an increased incidence of inmate-on-inmate violence at the prison in the late 1970s. [15] There had been several disturbances at the prison prior to the riot. In 1976, a work strike was organized by inmates as a response to the prison's poor conditions.
The study and practice of the punishment of crimes, particularly as it applies to imprisonment, is called penology, or, often in modern texts, corrections; in this context, the punishment process is euphemistically called "correctional process". [16] Research into punishment often includes similar research into prevention.
Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio told Alex Jones that anyone involved in convicting or investigating January 6 rioters “need to pay for what they did.” (AFP via Getty Images)
Prison reform is the attempt to improve conditions inside prisons, improve the effectiveness of a penal system, ... Retribution, vengeance and retaliation