Critical and Reflective Thinking

Our criminal justice system should be more punitive. I think that it should especially make people do more community service. People commit crimes maybe because they don’t have enough money or don’t have another option available to them. If you make punishments for crimes larger, then you would discourage people from doing crimes and make people more thoughtful and careful when they’re living.

Rehabilitation is also important though and if you don’t give people skills for life, then they have a higher chance of committing a crime because they know how to do it, and increasing the punishment would be in vain.

I can analyze evidence to make judgements – In this assignment, I looked at the pros and cons of making our criminal justice system more punitive or rehabilitative. I was able to make a judgement on which we needed to do.