PUNISHMENT
PUNISHMENT
It is the redress that the state takes against an offending member
of society that usually involves pain and suffering.
It is also the penalty imposed on an offender for a crime or
wrongdoing.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
Death Penalty – affected by burning, beheading, hanging, breaking
at the wheels, pillory and other forms of medieval executions.
Physical Torture – affected by maiming, mutilation, whipping and
other inhumane or barbaric forms of inflicting pain.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
Social Degradation – putting the offender into shame or
humiliation.
a. Furca – form of torture which is a v-shaped yolk worn
around the neck and where the outstretched arms of the convict were
tied to.
ANCIENT FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
Banishment or Exile – the sending or putting away of an offender
which was carried out either by prohibition against coming into a
specified territory such as an island to where the offender has been
removed.
Other similar forms of punishment like transportation and slavery.
E A R LY FOR M S OF PR I S ON DI S C I PL I NE
Hard Labor - productive works.
Deprivation – deprivation of everything except the bare essentials of
existence
Monotony – giving the same food that is “off ” diet, or requiring the
prisoners to perform drab or boring daily routine.
E A R LY FOR M S OF PR I S ON DI S C I PL I NE
Uniformity – “we treat the prisoners alike”. “The fault of one is the fault of
all”.
Mass Movement – mass living in cell blocks, mass eating, mass recreation,
mass bathing.
Degradation – uttering insulting words or languages on the part of prison staff
to the prisoners to degrade or break the confidence of prisoners.
E A R LY FOR M S OF PR I S ON DI S C I PL I NE
Corporal Punishment – imposing brutal punishment or employing physical
force to intimidate a delinquent inmate.
Isolation or Solitary Confinement – non-communication, limited news,
“the lone wolf ”.
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
Imprisonment – putting the offender in prison for the purpose of
protecting the public against criminal activities and at the same time
rehabilitating the prisoners by requiring them to undergo institutional
treatment programs.
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
Parole - a conditional release of a prisoners after serving part of his/her
sentence in prison for the purpose of gradually re-introducing him/her to
free life under the guidance and supervision of a parole officer.
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
Probation – a disposition whereby a defendant after conviction of an
offense, the penalty of which does not exceed six years imprisonment, is
released subject to the conditions imposed by the releasing court and under
the supervision of a probation officer.
CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF PUNISHMENT
Fine – an amount given as a compensation for a criminal act.
Destierro – the penalty of banishing a person from the place where he
committed a crime, prohibiting him to get near or enter the 25-kilometer
perimeter.
PURPOSES/JUSTIFICATIONS OF PUNISHMENT
Retribution – the punishment should be provided by the state whose
sanction is violated, to afford the society or the individual the opportunity of
imposing upon the offender suitable punishment as might be enforced.
Offenders should be punished because they deserve it.
PURPOSES/JUSTIFICATIONS OF PUNISHMENT
Expiation or Atonement – it is punishment in the form of group
vengeance where the purpose is to appease the offended public or group.
PURPOSES/JUSTIFICATIONS OF PUNISHMENT
Deterrence – punishment gives lesson to the offender by showing to
others what would happen to them if they violate the law. Punishment is
imposed to warn potential offenders that they can not afford to do what the
offender has done.
PURPOSES/JUSTIFICATIONS OF PUNISHMENT
Incapacitation and Protection – the public will be protected if the offender
has being held in conditions where he cannot harm others especially the
public. Punishment is effected by placing offenders in prison so that society
will be ensured from further criminal depredations of criminals.
PURPOSES/JUSTIFICATIONS OF PUNISHMENT
Reformation or Rehabilitation – it is the establishment of the usefulness
and responsibility of the offender. Society’s interest can be better served by
helping the prisoner to become law abiding citizen and productive upon his
return to the community by requiring him to undergo intensive program of
rehabilitation in prison.
