Retribution and Rehabilitation Quiz

What does retribution involve?

• Ignoring offenders

• Forgiving offenders

• Paying back offenders

• Reforming offenders

What is the concept of 'just deserts' in retribution?

• Offenders deserve to be reformed

• Offenders deserve to be ignored

• Offenders deserve to be forgiven

• Offenders deserve to be punished

According to the idea of proportionality, punishment should be equal or proportionate to the harm done. Which concept is based on this idea?

• An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life

• Forgiveness for all crimes

• Ignoring the harm done

• Reforming the offender

What is the purpose of retribution?

• To ignore the offender

• To reform the offender

• To express moral outrage

• To forgive the offender

What is an example of an 'uplift' in retribution?

• Reforming the offender after the penalty

• Reducing the penalty for an offence

• Increasing the penalty for an offence

• Ignoring the penalty for an offence

Which theory of criminality is retribution linked to?

• Left realist theory

• Right realist theory

• Marxist theory

• Feminist theory

What is the main criticism of retribution?

• It is easy to decide what is a proportionate penalty for each crime

• Offenders deserve forgiveness

• Retribution is a way of preventing future crimes

• Punishment has to be inflicted even where no good is going to come of it

What is the main aim of rehabilitation?

• Expressing moral outrage

• Reforming the offender's future behaviour

• Ignoring the offender's behaviour

• Punishing past offences

What do individualistic theories of criminality advocate for changing offenders' behaviour?

• Cognitive behavioural therapies

• Aversion therapy

• Token economies

• All of the above

What is the main criticism of rehabilitation according to right realists?

• Rehabilitation is not effective in reducing offending

• Rehabilitation focuses on addressing social factors that cause crime

• Rehabilitation shifts the responsibility for offending onto the individual offender's failings

• Rehabilitation has limited success