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In 1757 a Paris crowd watched a man torn apart for attacking the king. Today most punishment happens out of sight, behind prison walls, yet the old question remains: what gives a community the right to make someone suffer, and what should it hope to achieve?

This course sets Kant beside Bentham, then tests their ideas against history and evidence: why being caught matters more than sentence length, what Norway's prisons do differently, how New Zealand brings young offenders face to face with the people they harmed. The death penalty chapter lets each side make its strongest case.

Levels

  1. 1 1. What Punishment Is and Why It Needs Justifying 5-question quiz
  2. 2 2. Retributivism: Punishment as Desert 5-question quiz
  3. 3 3. Consequentialist Theories: Deterrence, Incapacitation, Rehabilitation 5-question quiz
  4. 4 4. A Short History of Punishment 5-question quiz
  5. 5 5. Prisons Today 5-question quiz
  6. 6 6. The Death Penalty Debate 5-question quiz
  7. 7 7. Restorative Justice 5-question quiz
  8. 8 8. Policing, Fairness and Weighing Reform 5-question quiz

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