Crime and Punishment


  • Dand
  • Loss, suffering, pain,  competent auth, guilty, justice, proportionality, stigma, moral order, behavior conditioning
  • Retributive / Restorative
    • an eye for an eye, 
    • inequality created by crime restored,
    • Aristotle & Hegel -ve reward, 
    • proportionate 
    • necessary for tough but just king
  • -ve 
    • human dignity
    • justification on moral ground,
    • eye for an eye makes the whole world blind
  • Deterrent 
    • disproportionate 
    • exemplary punishment so  that crime not repeated,
    • China & North Korea
    • - human as means Kant, inhuman
  • Reformative - 
    • rehabilitation
    • education
    • training
    • counseling 
    • human nature is malleable
    • criminal anthropology - disease 
    • kleptomania - stealing habit
    • sociology 
    • psychology - treatment
  • Capital Punishment.
    • Definite deterrent
    • moral war
    • satisfies vengeance in a victim
    • economic saving
    • maintain peace


  • Religious ground
    • no R to take someone life if you can’t create it
    • irreversible 
    • human error 
    • work done by jail inmates
    • Humanism moral worth human dignity
  • Rarest of rare doctrine - ex - honor killing, fake encounter, terrorism

Corruption

  • Confucian - any act done against India moral principle
  • Deviation from internal moral conscience
  • Financial, moral, values, 
  • Greed - appetite problem
  • Need - materialism high aspiration
  • Collusive
  • Coercive
  • Developed - organized corruption at a higher level
  • Developing - at a lower level, chaotic
  • Implication -
    • Society-  decline in trust, conflict-ridden society
    • Eco - parallel eco, black money
    • Org- systemic  corruption - org culture,
    • Indiv- spiritual degradation, psychological problem
  • Solution
    • Behavioral - Awareness, inculcate value, value-based Edu
    • Tech - IT-enabled service
    • Social - stigma,
    • Lead by example
Mass Violence

  • 1947 - mass killing
  • Sikh riots, Gujrat riots 2002
  • Humanism moral worth human dignity
  • Ayn rand - the banality of evil

Genocide

  • CS - DOPPED
  • Mass violence, hatred,
  • Ground - RRL, PES
  • Jews holocaust - 60 lakh killed
  • Classification - us  vs they
  • Symbolization
  • Dehumanization
  • Organization - state
  • Polarization
  • Preparation
  • Extermination
  • Denial
  • Humanism moral worth human dignity
  • Denies Natural right of human - Justice, Right to Life
  • Kantian ethics
  • Virtue ethics


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