Attitudes to Crime and Punishment

Analyze why attitudes towards crime and punishment have changed over time.
Explain the concepts of retribution and deterrence as historical purposes of punishment.
Evaluate the changing purpose of public punishment, tracing the shift from public humiliation to public execution.
Analyze the concept of banishment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Assess the use of prisons for both punishment and reform during the nineteenth century.
Evaluate changes in twentieth-century attitudes to punishment, focusing on the treatment of young offenders and the abolition of the death sentence.
Understand modern attempts to rehabilitate offenders and make restitution.

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