Deterrence And Retribution: Preventing Future Offender

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Retribution is mainly a punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong or illegal act. For instance, if a person did wrong, that person was punished by having the same thing done to them. In the past history, people used to revenge by taking the law into their own hands and punished criminals (Alarid,Cromwell., Del & Cromwell, 2011). Deterrence is using a punishment as a threat to deter people from offending. A historical example was the execution of Rainey Bethea in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1936 after rapping and killing a 70 year old woman (Durham, 2012). Incapacitation is detaining of criminals positively thus preventing future offending. One example in history is that people used to move away from the community never returning