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The favored view is that there are three: incapacitation, rehabilitation, and retribution. A jailed convict is incapacitated and will have a more difficult time hurting anyone else; the term itself...
Rehabilitation may be one of several goals, but others include: society's need to separate criminals from other potential victims, and to punish the person for doing the crime, which is intended to...