Criminals should be excluded and removed from society to protect others
Long prison sentences serve as a deterrent as it warns them of the consequences.
'Prisonworks' because it both deters potential offenders and takes criminals out of circulation.
Clarke (on Retributive Justice)
The cost must outweigh the benefits so long sentences are effective deterrents.
3 Strikes (Retributive Justice)
'Three strikes and you're out' = three separate convictions results in an automatic life sentence.
Led to the quadrupling of the US prison population since the 1990s
Rightwing politicians in favour of the return of capital punishment as it reduces the prison population and cost of incarceration whilst still acting as a deterrent.
Criticism of Retributive Justice
70% of people who have been to prison return = recidivism
USA has the second highest levels of incarceration in the world and still have the lethal injection yet still has the highest levels of crime.
Braithwaite (Criticism of Retributive Justice)
RJ is 'disintegrative shaming' as it stigmatises the individual and separates them from society.
Community based punishment for lower level crimes should be used - calls this 'reintegrate shaming'
Studies show ex-prisoners have difficulties in re-integrating due to the 'criminal'label
