Exemplary punishing

Abstract

Exemplary punishing is not something that is characteristic for the history, that is so strange and unbelievable today. We could say that today in Serbia, and not only in Serbia, there are still many examples of exemplary punishing. One of the very typical examples is the verdict for those who were sentenced for the murder of French football fun Brice Taton. The author of this text thinks that exemplary punishing is not just full, neither effective, in spite ordinary people usually think that with a strong, severe punishment many positive social effects could be achieved. First of all with exemplary punishing you could punish some completely innocent person, only if you think that with that you could get some positive social effects. Than, when the word is about exemplary punishing one person usually is liable for all others. There are several persons that are guilty, but you can not get all of them, then you catch only one and he/she is liable for all of them. It is not justfull considers the author. In the case of exemplary punishing, the frequency of some kind of criminality has great impact on the penal policy, which is also unjustfull. The exemplary punishing usually is some kind of political message that is sent to voters. It is not necessary to say how unjustfull it is. The author of this article also cites some examples of exemplary punishing from history, from Jesus, through burning beaches at the stake in the middle age, up to nowadays punishing terrorists in Guantanamo bay and punishing corrupted politicians in China. In former Yugoslavia, some opponents of communist regime, were exemplary punished and sent to prison, but, it did not have any effect, because they were those became leaders in the civil war that broke Yugoslavia. In spite all of that, exemplary punishing is presented nowadays very much, especially when the word is about some special kinds of criminality that irritate publicity. Usually the word is about corruption, terrorism, drug offences and football fun hooligans.