[টার্ম পেপার] Theories of Punishment

[টার্ম পেপার] Theories of Punishment

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Theories of Punishment Abstract Each society has its own way of social control for which it frames certain laws and also mentions the sanctions with them. These sanctions are nothing but the punishments. The human society is a cooperative endeavor secured by coercion. By coercion we mean a state where a recognized authority is compelled to punish individual who contravenes the rules and regulation of the commonwealth. As a result, individuals who composed a society enjoy a number of benefits and share burdens available only because of the cooperation of their fellows. The social order then enables people to work together for common purposes and to pursue in peace their private interests. But this is realized when everyone, through cooperation, helps to maintain this order. As Hobbes said that in the state of nature people were nasty, brutish and their life was short . Locke viewed that the people in the state of nature agreed a social contract in order to establish a formal law. In Rousseau's view, the social contract was done for the security of property and liberty. Thus from the very beginning of the origin of state, the concept of crime and ways of preventing it or if not, punishing the wrong-doer existed . The punishment system is an integral part of criminal justice and for maintaining social security. The progress of civilization has resulted in the change in the theory, method and motive of punishment... Download

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