Sentence examples for purpose of punishment from inspiring English sources

The department sensibly calls for more cost-effective prison policies, but that would require reconsideration of the basic purpose of punishment.

"Never for the purpose of punishment, only for the purpose of safety, either for the youth in the program, or the safety of others".

Juan Méndez, the United Nations special rapporteur on torture, pressed the United Nations Human Rights Council last week to help reduce the use of solitary confinement, having argued in a report on torture last year that prolonged isolation is cruel and inhumane, and "when used for the purpose of punishment, cannot be justified for any reason".

The most recently formulated theory of punishment is that of rehabilitation the idea that the purpose of punishment is to apply treatment and training to the offender so that he is made capable of returning to society and functioning as a law-abiding member of the community.

In the first place, Hume asks, what is the point or purpose of punishment in a future state?

The central meaning and purpose of punishment, on such accounts, is to communicate to offenders the censure or condemnation that they deserve for their crimes.

Second, also from Greenawalt comes the suggestion that any principle that officials may excuse justified illegal acts will result in some failures to punish unjustified acts, for which the purposes of punishment would be more fully served.

The rules include a number of safeguards including spelling out that restraint involving force cannot be used for the purposes of punishment.

But for securely convicted mass murderers, life imprisonment should mean exactly that, for all three purposes of punishment, protection of the public, and (if this ever works, which is questionable) deterrence.

Reid's second argument for moral liberty fails if purposes of this sort exhaust the purposes of punishment.

A variant of desert theory is the communicative theory of punishment, which takes both a forward-looking and a backward-looking view of the purposes of punishment.