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Thread #128065   Message #2864374
Posted By: Richard Bridge
15-Mar-10 - 07:19 AM
Thread Name: BS: Highering Age of Criminal Responsibility
Subject: RE: BS: Highering Age of Criminal Responsibility
A small correction or two. We have a legal system, not a justice system. There are several theories about the purposes of criminal sentencing, and while one is reform/rehabilitation, another is punishment, another is retribution, another is protection of the public from repeat offending, and yet another is the negation or balancing (in a Hegelian way) of the wrongdoer's wrong.