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Corporal Punishment


The victims and its family immediately get satisfaction when the wrongdoer is punished. As Arthur Levlyveld notes, "satisfaction is heightening when it becomes possible to measure out punishment in exact proportion to the size and shape of the wrong that has been done" (53).
             Corporal punishment for the first time offenders will keep them from committing crimes because of the fear of corporal punishment and jail time. Thomas J. Callanan asserts, "Punishment is necessary in order to deter the offender from committing similar acts, and to demonstrate to the community at large that crime has unpleasant consequences" (85). Move severe punishment should be sentenced to repeat offenders. Repeat offenders have personal motives behind the crime. If they haven't learned the lesson the first time, they should be punished more severely for their next offences.
             A person forfeits his rights when committing even minor crimes. Once rights are forfeited, criminals deserve punishment and punishment is needed to protect our society by deterring crime through example. Thus, society may punish the criminal any way it deems necessary so to set an example for other would-be criminals. Gregory Hetter wrote a letter to wall street journal regarding a young American who confessed to a ten-day spree of vandalism ere has been sentenced to six strokes of bamboo (cane), a $1400 fine, and four months in jail in Singapore. Hetter suspects that.
             if this vandal is canned it will turn out to be seminal moment in his life and may well save him from further destructive behavior. After having given Dr. Spock's teachings for fifty years of trial and having seen the error, I feel we need to give canning a chance.
             Corporal punishment generates a very clear, specific, and obvious consequence. Prison creates and maximizes uncertainty. A criminal knows that he can expect to get caught only for a small number of crimes. It is likely that most people grossly overestimate the chances of getting caught, so that the "certainty" of the punishment is ensured through the omnipresence of threat.


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