Justification Of Punishment Justified By Ted Honderinch s...

Why punish? Is the use of punishment Justified? Ted Honderinch’s Punishment: The supposed Justifications Revisited aim to answer these questions. Punishment is at the core of our punitive systems, therefore society needs to establish a well thought-out moral explanation as to why we punish and what we aim to achieve with the use of punishment. Honderinch set out to analyze the supposed moral claims that justify the practice of punishment and to determine if they are satisfactory enough for the intentional infliction suffering and deprivation. What are the claims as to why punishment should be morally used? The author looks at three main justifications of punishment. Those who believe that the offender deserves to be chastised for his or her crime justify punishment by appealing to desert thereby retributive in nature thus backward-looking. The justification of punishment on forward-looking factors justifies punishment for its ability to prevent and reduce crime therefore through punishment the offender is capable of reform and rehabilitation. The third justification is the mixture of both justifications in which punishment is deserved for some past offences, and also it reduces crime. From these Justifications, it is clear that one cannot justify punishment without stating its aim. Honderich argues persuasively that these justifications that these justifications are not satisfactory. Honderinch in his analysis considers numerous backward-looking justifications, those