What are the objectives of punishment according to Jeremy Bentham?

What will be an ideal response?


The objectives of punishment:
• to prevent all offenses if possible
• to persuade a person to commit a less serious crime
• to convince a person from doing no more mischief than is necessary to his purpose
• to prevent crime at as small a cost to society as possible

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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a. True b. False

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_____ offers a more restrictive alternative to regular probation, with higher levels of face-to-face contact between offenders and officers.

A. Community control probation B. Intensive supervision probation C. Shock probation D. Unsupervised probation

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PODSCORB (planning, organizing, directing, staffing, coordinating, reporting, and budgeting) is useful for _________.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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