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This edition revised 11 August 2026.
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SECTION I
Q. No. 1: Answer the following questions in one or two sentences
Any 6 · (12 Marks - 2 marks each)
1.Name any two features of Jeremy Bentham's view on punishment.[2]
Answer
Jeremy Bentham (1748 to 1832) treated punishment as a question of utility, not of vengeance. Two features of his view:
- Punishment is itself an evil, and is justified only because it prevents a greater evil. Bentham wrote that all punishment is mischief, and that if it ought at all to be admitted, it ought to be admitted only so far as it promises to exclude some greater mischief. The state inflicts pain, and pain is never good in itself, so every punishment needs a justification in the suffering it prevents.
- Its purpose is deterrence, and it must therefore be proportionate. The pain of the punishment must slightly outweigh the pleasure or profit the offender expects from the crime, so that crime never pays. This gives his famous rules of proportion: the greater the mischief of the offence, the greater the punishment that is worth inflicting.
A third feature often added is his list of cases where punishment ought not to be inflicted, because it would be groundless, inefficacious, unprofitable or needless.
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