Justification of Punishment

• RETRIBUTION

  • personal vengeance
  • An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth "Lex talionis"

  EXPIATION OR ATONEMENT

  • group vengeance
  • it is punishment in the form of group vengeance where the purpose is to appease the offended public or group.
• DETERRENCE - punishment gives lesson to the offender by showing to other what would happen to them if they violate the law.

  PROTECTION - by placing the offender in prison, the society is protected from further criminal depredation.
• REFORMATION - society interest can be better serve by helping the prisoner become law abiding citizen and productive upon undergoing to an intensive program of rehabilitation in prison.