What are the aims of the four sentencing goals?

What will be an ideal response?


Rehabilitation: designed to change the defendant's behavior.
Retribution: offenders must be punished fairly and justly.
Incapacitation: Offenders are removed from society.
Deterrence: General aims to discourage others from committing a similar crime and specific aims to punish that offender to prevent him/her from reoffending.

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a. was an Italian philosopher who decried harsh punishments for minor offenses b. promoted prison reform based on principles of the Quaker faith c. was a former sheriff and prisoner of war who spent his life focusing on prison reform d. made plans for a hypothetical prison called a panopticon

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