In many situations, people who break the law should be warned instead of punished. To what extent do you agree or disagree?
Punishments
have long been seen as an effective way of teaching people about the right and wrong ways of doing things. The social awareness of their existence solely encourages people to abstain from committing a crime
. While
some claim that punishment can be effectively substituted with a warning in several cases, I would argue that this
method will not prove very efficient.
To begin
with, simple notices do not possess as much effect on criminals
as punishments
do. Many criminals
, even the light ones are commonly not afraid of the warnings that bear no significant monetary loss for them. Thus
, if they are able to get away with simple notices and rehabilitation curses, there is a large chance that offenders turn to crime
repeatedly in the future. Furthermore
, punishments
in the form of prison and financial compensation also
serve a demonstrative purpose. For instance
, when one criminal is assigned a serious punishment, that serves as a lesson for many other individuals who have intentions to break the law. Therefore
, punishments
do not only help to discipline revealed criminals
but also
to prevent others from committing a crime
.
On the contrary
, it may suffice for a few people to give warnings to change their behaviour. For example
, those who have unintentionally broken the law or committed light forms of crime
may rethink their actions after being detected. However
, such
cases constitute only a small proportion of all offences and identifying whether an offender deliberately committed a crime
is nearly impossible for the police. Also
, if courts do not assign any serious punishment for all sorts of light crimes, that will motivate many novice criminals
to turn back to their unacceptable jobs.
In a nutshell, punishments
are the most prevalent method of maintaining peace in society and ensuring that criminals
extract a lesson from their actions.Submitted by jaker.raimov on
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