Pat/Ethel/Erica -- please use the same name for your posts.
I disagree with both your answers. Study this site.
http://www.csus.edu/indiv/g/gaskilld/ethics/Punishment.htm
These two questions are similar in type and I am really confused by the textbook.
1) Which of the following objections to criminal punishment might be raised by a Kantian ethical framework?
A. Incapacitation amounts to using offenders to benefit the community.
B. Rehabilitation fails to respect the offenders' autonomy by not allowing them to decide for themselves what kind of people they wish to be.
C. Deterrence is akin to treating offenders like dogs rather than respecting their freedom and rationality.
D. All of the above.
2) Kantian (deontological) ethics justifies criminal punishment on which of the following grounds?
A. Retribution
B. Rehabilitation
C. Deterrence
D. Incapacitation
for each one I choose B. But I don't think the two should be the same. Please help me understand this.
2 answers
OK. Took the test. Question 1 answer is D. and Question 2 answer was A.