Deck 7: Reward and Punishment

Question 1

As a you would allocate rewards and punishments based on results.

A)Libertarian
B)Republican
C)Utilitarian
D)Kantian

Answer 1

C

Question 2

"An eye for an eye" fits with an)theory of punishment.

A)utilitarian
B)conservative
C)retributivist
D)distributivist

Answer 2

C

Question 3

As an egalitarian you would distribute rewards

A)on need.
B)on ability.
C)on merit.
D)equally without regard for need or merit.

Answer 3

D

Question 4

The retributivist believes that the results are what really count.

Question 5

Restitution is the idea that punishment should be stopped or "rested."

Question 6

The theory of deterrence is a theory.

A)desert
B)results
C)restitution
D)compensation

Question 7

Restitution theories believe that when a crime is committed a victim should

A)seek compensation.
B)seek revenge.
C)seek help.
D)seek punishment.

Question 8

Who believed that offenders should be punished only if they deserve it and not for any consequences that may come of it?

A)Mill
B)Bentham
C)Kant
D)Sidgewick

Question 9

John Rawls believes that human rights are natural rights.

Question 10

How we dispense good or bad, reward and punishment, is called distributive justice.

Question 11

Someone who synthesizes all the theories of rewards and punishments together is known as a nephrologist.

Question 12

Justice should be collective rather than individual.

Question 13

Why, according to the retributivists, should people be punished?

A)revenge
B)utility
C)deterrence
D)desert

Question 14

Who have been accused of thinking of punishment in terms of use rather than justice?

A)The retributivists
B)The Utilitarians
C)The Quakers
D)The restitutionists

Question 15

Who proposed the theory of a "just society"?

A)Aristotle
B)Robert Nozick
C)George Bush
D)John Rawls

Question 16

Justice is concerned with the future - what people will do.

Question 17

All that counts for the utilitarians is whether rewards or punishments are deserved.

Question 18

One of the weaknesses of deterrence theories is that if they work they work just as well on the innocent as well as the guilty.

Question 19

What kind of case presents difficulties for all the theories of punishment?

A)Where harm occurs but the people causing it are clearly irresponsible.
B)Where harm occurs but the people causing it are really without fault.
C)Where harm does not occur but could if people were slightly more unlucky.
D)Where harm does occur but the people causing it cannot be caught.