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Punishment can help to reduce crime. — Carmelics

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Punishment can help to reduce crime.

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1.Punishment can deter potential offenders.
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2.Punishment can incapacitate potential offenders.
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3.Punishment can reform potential offenders.
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1.Empirical evidence consistently shows that severity of punishment has negligible deterrent effect on crime rates.
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2.Incarceration disrupts social bonds and employment, increasing recidivism rather than reducing future offending.
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3.Therefore, punishment as practiced fails the consequentialist standard it invokes to justify itself.
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1.Foucault's analysis shows punishment displaces crime rather than reducing it, producing disciplined subjects who evade rather than abandon criminality.
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2.Systemic factors—poverty, inequality, social marginalization—are the primary drivers of crime that punishment leaves entirely unaddressed.
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A consequentialist must justify punishment (if she is to justify it at all) as a cost-effective means to certain independently identifiable goods (for two simple examples of such theories, see Wilson 1983; Walker 1991). Whatever account she gives of the final good or goods at which all action ultimately aims, the most plausible immediate good that a system of punishment can bring is the reduction of crime. A rational consequentialist system of law will define as criminal only conduct that is in some way harmful; in reducing crime we will thus be reducing the harms that crime causes. It is comm...

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