Punishment is a universal response to crime and deviance and can be found in all societies and social groups.
The function of Punishment
The function of Punishment
- Reinforces the values and beliefs of a society or social group
- Incapacitates and deters those who may consider criminal misconduct
- Maintain the power relations within society
- Eliminate threats to the prevailing social order
- Death is widely considered to be the ultimate penalty that a government can inflict on an individual.
- Death by execution is not only violent, but it is final and the most complete form of punishment.
- Execution not only denies a person the hope of freedom, but also any potential of a future.