{"id":1999,"date":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2011\/01\/12\/prison-and-punishment-in-scandinavia-uk-and-america-kantian-retribution-versus-utilitarianism\/"},"modified":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"prison-and-punishment-in-scandinavia-uk-and-america-kantian-retribution-versus-utilitarianism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2011\/01\/12\/prison-and-punishment-in-scandinavia-uk-and-america-kantian-retribution-versus-utilitarianism\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison and Punishment in Scandinavia, UK and America: Kantian Retribution versus Utilitarianism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philosophy<br \/>\n\u2022 Kant\u2019s theory of punishment is based on desert and not about consequences. It insists on retribution. (Kant, Groundwork)<br \/>\n\u2022 Utilitarianism appeals to consequences, hence reparation programmes and deterrence. Yet if a severe crime creates greater consequences then it should be carried out regardless of desert. (Mill, Utilitarianism) <\/p>\n<p>Territory<br \/>\n\u2022 America demonstrates a penal system of harsh retributive punishment and also harsh utilitarian forms of punishment. (Death penalty, 3 strikes)<br \/>\n\u2022 Scandinavia utilitarian  in its aims of reparation and prevention<br \/>\n\u2022 UK show like America a combination yet is more focussed on probation programmes than America. <\/p>\n<p>Project Aims \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; To outline the differences in penal systems in Scandinavia, UK and America \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; To demonstrate the effectiveness of various forms of punishment. \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; To demonstrate how these countries\u2019 penal systems reflect Kantian retribution and utilitarianism \uf0b7<br \/>\n&#8211; To critically compare these approaches<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annelise Hardy, 2011, Stage 2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,22,128],"tags":[3,113,116],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-580","category-abstracts","category-stage-2-abstracts","tag-kant","tag-law","tag-prison"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}