Educational Criminology - Kyoiku Keiron

Japanese: 教育刑論 - きょういくけいろん

A theory that holds that the purpose of punishment is to educate criminals so that they can reintegrate into society. It is one of the theories of purposive punishment as opposed to retributive punishment. It is an argument of the new school of criminal law. Purposive punishment theory takes the position that the essence of punishment is its own purpose, and is relativist in that it considers punishment to be a means to an end. Educational punishment theory takes the special prevention theory as the purpose of punishment, and seeks to educate criminals to improve their bad character by imposing punishment, so that they will not commit crimes again. To achieve this educational purpose, it is necessary to respond to the individuality of the prisoner (principle of individualization of punishment) and to have an indefinite sentence. →Makino Eiichi / Ferri / List

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Japanese:

刑罰の目的を犯人の社会復帰のための教育であるとする説。応報刑論に対する目的刑論の一つ。新派刑法学の主張。目的刑論は刑罰の本質即刑罰の目的という立場から，刑罰を他の目的・手段とする点で相対主義。教育刑論は，刑罰の目的については，特別予防説をとり，刑罰を科することによって，犯人の悪い性格を改善教育し，再び犯罪を行わないようにする点に求める。この教育目的を達成するために，受刑者の個性に応ずること（刑罰個別化原則）と不定期刑が要請される。→牧野英一／フェッリ／リスト

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