New Directions in Sentencing: Is Punishment Working?

Over the years, other purposes, such as incapacitation, rehabilitation or risk management, have been suggested, but all of these seem to have failed to convince the public that they could be valid alternatives to punishment. For the last twenty years, at least as far as this continent is concerned, there has been a strong movement to reassert punishment as the main aim of the criminal sanction and yet, for the most part, this movement has been resisted by criminal justice officials. Rather than asking whether punishment works, this paper asserts that punishment better work as the entire concept or criminal justice rests on the notion that state sanctioned harm is necessary to restore and maintain peace and harmony in the country.

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