ASSIGNMENT
Explain the difference between the retributive rationale for punishment and the utilitarian rationale.
What is the social contract?
Discuss the three benefits of prison under the utilitarian rationale of punishment.
Discuss the differences between the conservative, liberal, and radical approaches to penal philosophy. What time period in history is associated with the conservative approach? The liberal approach?
What is the importance of “separation, obedience, and order”?
Explain the severity hypothesis and the economic theories of penal philosophy.
Discuss the elements of the new retributivism. What is the “just-desserts” model?
Discuss “restorative justice” and how this approach is or is not consistent with imprisonment.
Discuss the philosophical rationale for reintegration efforts.
To sum up, describe the two most common rationales for prison.
