Timeline for What impact would a society that had no imprisonment have on the people in it?
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| Sep 2, 2016 at 22:25 | comment | added | jimsug | @LuísHenrique I would say internment fits into my more generic category of restrictions on travel/movement, as would slavery. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:29 | comment | added | Luís Henrique | And, of course, temporary or permanent slavery. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 14:27 | comment | added | Luís Henrique | There is also internment, unless this is considered an especial kind of "imprisonmnent": offenders can be restricted to a certain area, where they may enjoy normal liberties granted to all citizens - property, jobs, freedom of movement, etc. - but only within the limits of the penal colony. A kind of "internal exile". | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 10:17 | comment | added | Daerdemandt | @Nolo High reoffence rate does non mean that deterrence does not work, you would need offence rate in general for that. Reoffence rate shows reoffences in people who were caught. If some country has a reoffence rate that differs a lot from others then either people there can be divided into 2 categories - latent offenders who are likely to offend in general and others; or that going through the system places person in a situation where he's likely to commit another crime. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 9:30 | comment | added | nigel222 | In more primitive times outlaw was a precise legal concept: a person outside the protection of the law. A court could declare a person outlaw. This meant that any other person in that community could do anything to him and it would not be a crime. It was a fairly effective way of exiling a person from the community and making sure he stayed gone. Or if he did not leave, that he had genuinely repented and behaved very well thereafter, because killing him would not be a crime. Quite an effective last warning, short of execution. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 7:36 | comment | added | Nolo | I am not sure that I agree about imprisonment being a deterrent in general. However, admittedly, I am ignorant of any statistics. As far as I am aware, the United States (my country) has the highest imprisonment rate and also the highest repeat offense rate. Which leads me to believe that there are other dominant factors involved in deterrence. Do you have a reference to statistics that correlate imprisonment with deterrence? | |
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| Sep 1, 2016 at 1:52 | comment | added | jimsug | For some reason I'd thought of branding as more like public reprimand, but I suppose reprimand has a more ephemeral implication. | |
| Sep 1, 2016 at 0:03 | comment | added | Necessity | @Daerdemandt I think mutilation and branding should be added to the list. Becoming a eunuch is a really fit punishment for some crimes. | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 16:20 | comment | added | Daerdemandt | There is also stuff like iflicting permanent injuries and/or labels (cutting of the hand for theft, nose for participation in certain religious movements, branding for the same thing). It's somewhere between 6 and 7 on your list, but neither have connotation of "has to bear that mark for the rest of their life" | |
| Aug 31, 2016 at 13:51 | comment | added | John Dvorak | Why not make punishments based on physical pain a public occurrence? Media are free to call it torture, as long as they acknowledge it isn't the official term. If you're really bold, you can sell the tickets. | |
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| Aug 31, 2016 at 2:38 | history | answered | jimsug | CC BY-SA 3.0 |