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Types of Punishments
Types of Punishments
today i am here especially to talk to you about punishments that can help to rehabilitate
offenders.
the purpose of this presentation is to give my personal opinion and expose my points of views
on this subject.
finally, the incapacity for certain jobs or impediments to approach a place or a person.
A punishment is a particular way of punishing someone who commits a crime, but there are
many forms of punishment, more or less severe, depending on the crime committed, the
punishment for a robbery is not the same as for a murder, but everyone has the right to be
rehabilitated and to have a second chance.
Now, I would like to move on to the idea of parole. During parole, the offender is released
from prison, but has to meet requirements such as getting a job, not using drugs and alcohol
and not contacting parole victims.
When a person goes to prison it affects his or her mental health a lot, so I think that parole is a
good intermediate step.
On the other hand, we have treatment, especially for drug and alcohol related offences,
where experts advised that prison was not effective because it did not address the problem of
addiction.
And now, I would like to expand this topic to the last type of rehabilitation: prison
rehabilitation programmes, a good example of which would be the road safety education
course for traffic offences.
Finally, the impossibility to work with minors if you have committed sexual offences or the
impossibility to be a civil servant, prohibition to go to certain places or to talk again with some
people you have harmed.
In short, I believe that the aim of all justice systems should be rehabilitation and not
punishment.
Rehabilitation is more effective than punishment because it directly addresses the root cause
of criminality, which are often symptoms of social problems.