Would you like to see the "eye for an eye" kind of punishment adopted by your legal system?

Question

As the question says, would you like to see the "eye for an eye" kind of punishments adopted by your legal system?

A few examples of what it would mean:
If a husband beats his wife or children, he is in turn beaten.
If an individual stabs someone, they are stabbed the same way.
If someone steals X amount of dollars, X amount of dollars are taken from them.

So would you want to see that kind of punishment system?
-Yes or No?
-Why or why not?
-Do you believe it would lower the crime rate?
-And lastly, what country are you from?

Answer 1

As a Criminology graduate from Malta, I theoretically would agree with an eye for an eye legal system.



When a person commits a crime, he hurts society and needs to pay back. Wasting time behind bars and leaching from our frail economy is not a way of paying back.



Prison are certainly not a crime deterrent and this is proven by our high rates of recidivism



Prisons in Malta are no nice place to be in even though they are often sarcastically called 'the Hilton' but they provide shelter, they provide free food and security. For some people conditions behind bars are better than conditions on the street.



If a country had to employ the eye for an eye judicial system, the way how a likely offender will think will abruptly change. whilst a person wold consider killing vs fifteen years in prison, he now has to consider killing vs being killed.



An eye for an eye system is the best system to make an offender understand the harm he caused and come to term with the suffering of the victims.



In Malta Victimization programmes allow victims to meet the offender, or to at least write letters whilst in prison. This allows the offender to taste what the victim has been put through.



It is widely acknowledged that prisons do not deter crime, it is out of lack of creativity and courage in the legal systems that they are still as widely used.

Answer 2

I think I would like the 'eye for an eye' punishment adopted in the legal system, being one who believes in capital punishment.

I'm from the UK by the way.

Like un some cultures if a man was found to have raped a women he would have his testicles crushed between 2 rocks... not quite sure which culture does that but I think they have the right idea. That would certainly deter someone from raping anyone at least. Sure its more like an eye for an ear, as it'd be a bit wrong if the man was raped in return, it has to be within reason.

There should also be some guidelines, as some people may have mental problems causing them to do such crimes, such as schizophrenia. Obviously each variable would have to be taken into account, i.e. whether there was original intent to commit the crime or not.

But all technicalities aside, yes, eye for an eye and capital punishment should be re-instated.

Answer 3

Let's just, for a moment, consider the pragmatic issues involved in such a system. Tell me how you would "punish" the following crimes:



prostitution

gambling

burglary

rape

littering

speeding

conspiracy



Not to mention - what are you going to do if someone robs a bank of $10M or so? They don't have $10M to "take away" from them for goodness sake.



Need I go on?? There is just no way to do it in a practical sense. Not only that, but it would be totally ineffectual. With the exception of murder where, ostensibly the offender is to be murdered under such a scheme, the individual is let go once the punishment is inflicted. There are too many people who have already demonstrated they are willing to suffer significant short term punishment in anticipation of long term gain.

Answer 4

I think hangings are still used in some states in the US, and i don't think its a bad idea. Probably the reason you don't see the other two is because they are wasteful and messy. Easy to take a person off the gallows, but who wants to deal with bloody heads and charred corpses. I believe in the death penalty, and i don't see the problem in it being a bad way for the person to die either. But lets not make it too gruesome. I think a balance needs to be found. Lethal injection seems too easy for murderers, rapists etc. But beheading is a bit insane, for instance what person would you get to do it, and would you ever want to met a person who was an official beheader?? Chuck em off the gallows i say, either that or bring back the good old arena...........

Answer 5

Yes I would definitely like to see this eye for an eye kind of punishment. Why, because the criminals have more rights than their victims. I believe it would lower the crime rate because then they (the criminals) would be afraid of what they would receive as punishment. I am from the United States. Excellent question!

Answer 6

No, I don't want that system. So we can be just like the savages that stone young girls for flirting or premarital sex? Or decapitating or hanging gay men in town squares? And who would determine the laws and punishments? Its completely not plausible and is an insult to the justice system. It would not lower crime rate. We have a justice system for a reason, and mob rule would destroy us.

I am from the USA.

Answer 7

Even though that do sound like a equal punishment system but I personally think that shouldn't be put in place it just doesn't seem right. I sometimes wounder if the way they do the penalty is still a form of cruel punishment

Answer 8

YES!

If everybody was able to carry a gun then it would cut down on how many people were robbed. If Joe knew that old lady was packin he wouldnt beat her & take her money. If Joe knew he'd get his hand cut off for stealing he wouldnt steal. If Joe knew he'd get his manhood taken away he wouldnt rape my daughter. If Joe knew hed be beaten like the bit*h he is he wouldn't beat my daughter.

USA- ILLINOIS

Joe is a fictional character

Answer 9

No, then we would become animals like some countries in this world. Punishment for a crime doesn't mean pain, it means forfeiture of freedom, and in some cases death, but in a humane, civilized way. It is not for us to seek vengeance, that is up to GOD, it is up to us to see that justice is served.

Answer 10

CANADA Here

I agree 100%

I think crime would nose drive right away.



you kill you die very VERY SLOWLY & painful,

you rape you get rape with very painful objects repeatedly the whole time you are in jail!

You sexually abuse a child under 16 you get your ball s cut off/vagina sewn closed! Then spend the rest of your life in jail getting the crap kicked out of you!







you repeat stealing a car make them a hood ordament at Indy 500 THEN send them to jail...lol





I could go on for every crime... lol

Answer 11

Oh hell yes.

I think it's unfair.

Hey, I just killed my kids, instead my punishment will be one day of painful buttsex. UGH.



I think it would lower the crime rate so damn much, after a while.

I think it would heighten it at first, because people want revenge.



I'm from US OF A<3

Answer 12

Yes, because their would be less crime if people knew they would be punished like so. Their would be less crime because then people would have something to fear. I am from the United States.

Answer 13

Yes

Because violence, is increasing and nonstopping, you cant change the way someone thinks and to stop people dying, getting hurt.

We need fairness in the world.

& Yes



& England

Answer 14

Humankind has behaved that way for at least the past twelve thousand years, and it has done nothing to reduce crime - why are we so god damn blind as to continue to flog that same dead horse?

Answer 15

No. I prefer to live in a land where the criminals are not identical to the law abiding citizens.

Answer 16

No. Fighting violence with violence, or hate with hate, doesn't solve anything.



From the US