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SYNOPSIS
INTRODUCTION

Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial
India, the many techniques of colonial coercion and state violence and a cultural history of the
different ways in which Indians imbued practices of punishment with their own meanings and
reinterpreted acts of state violence in their own political campaigns.

Under the sanction of the law, punishment is retribution on the offender to the suffering in
person or property which is inflicted by the offender. Punishment is a method of preventing an
offender from committing crimes against person, property, or the government. As a result,
punishments might be deterrent, rehabilitative, restorative, or retributive in nature.

The aims of punishment are now considered to be retribution, justice, deterrence, information
and protection and modern sentencing policy reflects a combination of several or all these aims.
The retributive element is intended to show public revulsion to the offence and to punish the
offender for his wrong conduct. In the concept of justice as an aim of punishment growing
emphasis is laid upon it by much modern legislation but judicial opinion towards this particular
aim is varied an rehabilitation will not usually be accorded precedence over deterrence means
both that the punishment should fit the offence and also that like offences should receive similar
punishment.

The objectives of punishment are to deter the future commission of crimes, which the death
penalty did not achieve and to reform the offender, which the death penalty obviously cannot
achieve. There is no evidence to show that death penalty has deterrent effect upon the crimes;
and States without the death penalty continue to have significantly lower murder rates than those
that retain capital punishment. So given the fact that capital punishment does not act as a
deterrent and it cannot reform an offender (as nobody can reform a dead person), the only
argument in its favour is retributive justice. Retributive justice, which prioritises justice for the
public over crime control goals, requires offender who breaks the law to suffer in return and also
requires the response to the crime to be proportional to the offence.

RESEARCH METHEDOLOGY

The researcher has relied upon the analytical and doctrinal method of research for the project. In
order to gain essential and relevant details and outcomes of the research work, the researcher has
concentrated on collecting the data from the secondary source of information available through
various books, journals, case laws etc. For referencing, Uniform Citation Style has been adopted
throughout the project.

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE

● To study about the history of Punishment.

● To study about the major judicial pronouncement which brought criminal adjudication
system
● To analysis the pattern of punishment: past and future

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

● Whether the change in punishment have brought considerable decrease in crime rate?
● Whether the recent amendments made by the Indian legal system have brought new
dimensions in the area of punishments?
● Whether there was any change brought in the criminal laws regarding punishment after
the Judicial view in the case of Nirbhaya Case?

MODE OF CITATION

The researcher has adopted a uniform mode of 20th edition of Blue Book citation throughout the
project.

BIBLYOGRAPHY

[Mention the Books/ Articles/ Cases you have referred to do this project work]