Correctional justice

The term correctional justice points towards that system of criminal justice administration which seeks to correct or reform the offenders, the purpose to rehabilitate offenders in the society successful.

Introduction

Under correctional justice an offender is treated as a patient, who requires to be cured and corrected. In early times the punishment was meant for retribution so that instinct or ego of the victims of crime as well the State could be satisfied. Normally, an eye for eye and tooth for tooth was the rule. Later, punishment was looked at as a deterring factor so that the willing offenders should be deterred from committing crimes. But as the society advanced new theories explaining and justifying punishment emerged.

Correctional justice as to juveniles

Modern penology lays special emphasis on application of correctional (mostly non-institutional) techniques to juveniles in order to prevent them from becoming professional and hardcore criminals.