Crime is a serious problem of modern society. People need safely surrounding for happy living and it is the duty of the state to provide their safety. A lot of attempts are made in order to find new ways of dealing with the growing crime rate. Correctional policies are designed in order to punish lawbreakers and prevent new crimes. Using a differentiated approach when dealing with different types of crime can bring good results as it takes into account all peculiarities of each separate crime category. Despite there being a trend in modern society aiming to limit the use of imprisonment as a correctional policy it stays one of the most effective and most widespread policies.Scientists provide a lot of theories trying to explain the origins and reasons of criminal behavior. Most of the theories turn to the ideas of inequality and trying poor people to get some compensation for their lower status and lack of possibilities in life.
Social Control theory regards all human creatures as naturally inclined to committing crimes and become surprised with those, who don’t. Despite these theories put all the guilt for the crimes committed on the society, it still serves the additional proof that only retributional policies can bring necessary result.
Rational arguments will not work with people, who feel social injustice. That is why preventive measures are not very likely to be effective in this case. At the same time there is a big hope that imprisonment can become a combination of preventive and punishing measure as it serves as a punishment to actual criminals and reminds about potential retribution to the potential ones.
