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Unit 9 Paper: Rehabilitation vs. Punishment

Jasmine Ambert

CJ 101-12 Introduction to the Criminal Justice System

Professor: Raymond Oberg

July 9, 2013

The Correctional System has many roles in our society but we need to focus on punishment and rehabilitation. Punishment is meant for the people who broke the law to pay for what they did. In some cases punishment maybe harsh but depending what they did. Rehabilitation is to prevent crimes and give them the ability to change and succeed under the law with no jail time. This paper here is design to debate on punishment and rehabilitation and argue that rehabilitation is the best strategy in reducing crimes from happening in the future.

The correctional system has a way of punishing offenders in this country unlike in different countries where you might get a harsher punishment for a crime that might seem more or less of a crime , In our system however not only are you innocent until proven guilty but you are also allowed to have a trial that can prove otherwise.   The system might not always work out how we want it to, or expect it to but it is definitely a fair way of going about it.  

We have the law to protect us to make us feel safe from others. Also when dealing with the law we have police officers who deal with crimes that happen in our everyday life. Police officers has different roles we have the preventive patrol where here they do a routine where they are placed on the streets to determine the crime that is committed and stop it. We have also first responders who helps in scenes that peoples life is in danger and we have support systems where we the citizens can go for help when we have been hurt. All this sounds good but the criminal justice system has one goal to punish those who commit crimes.

When using punishment it is a way of punishing someone for the crimes they committed and to discipline them for future crimes they want to do. (AK Larrabee 2006). There are...