Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 33 views

    For and Against Imprisonment

    Uploaded by

    Alexander Dekov
    Imprisonment is commonly used to punish criminals but its effectiveness is debated. While imprisonment isolates dangerous individuals from society and takes away freedoms as a punishment, prisons can harm inmates physically and mentally. Many prisoners lose their sanity or ability to behave normally. Additionally, ex-convicts often struggle to reintegrate into society and find work or housing after prison, and recidivism rates are high, showing imprisonment may not rehabilitate criminals as intended. In conclusion, imprisonment has both benefits and drawbacks as a form of punishment.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    For and Against Imprisonment

    Uploaded by

    Alexander Dekov
    33 views1 page
    Imprisonment is commonly used to punish criminals but its effectiveness is debated. While imprisonment isolates dangerous individuals from society and takes away freedoms as a punishment, prisons can harm inmates physically and mentally. Many prisoners lose their sanity or ability to behave normally. Additionally, ex-convicts often struggle to reintegrate into society and find work or housing after prison, and recidivism rates are high, showing imprisonment may not rehabilitate criminals as intended. In conclusion, imprisonment has both benefits and drawbacks as a form of punishment.

    Original Title

    Homework

    Copyright

    © Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)

    Available Formats

    DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Imprisonment is commonly used to punish criminals but its effectiveness is debated. While imprisonment isolates dangerous individuals from society and takes away freedoms as a punishment, prisons can harm inmates physically and mentally. Many prisoners lose their sanity or ability to behave normally. Additionally, ex-convicts often struggle to reintegrate into society and find work or housing after prison, and recidivism rates are high, showing imprisonment may not rehabilitate criminals as intended. In conclusion, imprisonment has both benefits and drawbacks as a form of punishment.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    33 views1 page

    For and Against Imprisonment

    Uploaded by

    Alexander Dekov
    Imprisonment is commonly used to punish criminals but its effectiveness is debated. While imprisonment isolates dangerous individuals from society and takes away freedoms as a punishment, prisons can harm inmates physically and mentally. Many prisoners lose their sanity or ability to behave normally. Additionally, ex-convicts often struggle to reintegrate into society and find work or housing after prison, and recidivism rates are high, showing imprisonment may not rehabilitate criminals as intended. In conclusion, imprisonment has both benefits and drawbacks as a form of punishment.

    Copyright:

    Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
    Download as DOC, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as doc, pdf, or txt
    of 1

    For and Against Imprisonment

    Imprisonment is the most common means of punishing criminals in the majority of countries. However, the publics concern is growing for the effectiveness of penal institutions. More and more people, scientists and respectable community members state that prison confinement is an obsolete way to deal with crime, and an ineffective one, too. Therefore, there are both advantages and disadvantages of imprisonment as a form of punishment. Prison confinement has a number of positive effects. irstly, the most obvious benefit the society gains from prisons is that they isolate dangerous individuals and do not let them re! offend. In other words, it is a way to deter crime and to protect law!abiding citi"ens. #econdly, imprisonment is by far the most reasonable way to treat those who brea$ the law and harm other people, as it implies ta$ing away certain freedoms. %o person would feel a full!fledged individual when in confinement and it is of itself a punishment. Thirdly, in ade&uate prisons the inmates have all the opportunities to become decent people. They can be taught something of value ' a trade, a profession, a new way of life. #ome prisons give prisoners wor$ing s$ills which will help them to find a job and earn for a living. (n the other hand, imprisonment also has drawbac$s. irst of all, prisons can harm individuals both morally and physically. The conditions of imprisonment, the constant fear, the contemptuous attitudes of guards as well as beating from inmates can ma$e the life of a prisoner into a nightmare he does not deserve. In fact, a lot of prisoners lose their sanity or the ability to behave normally after a time in prison. Moreover, it is a very rare case when the society treats an e)!convict the same as other people. The truth is that he is e)tremely unli$ely to get a decent job or have a family and benefit the society. In addition, the recidivism rate of e)!cons is from *+ to ,+- depending on the country. This illustrates the low effectiveness of imprisonment. To sum up, sending people to prison as a form of punishment has negative, as well as positive sides. (n the one hand, it is supposed to combat crime and rehabilitate criminals, which is good. (n the other hand, it rarely manages to do so or even produces an opposite effect.

    You might also like