The class discussion and reading assignment suggested that we have a specific way of punishing criminal offenders and that there are four purposes behind this system. The first goal, retribution, is to ensure that the perpetrator, who in this case is Michelle Lodzinski, pays the consequences for what she is accused of doing, but if she committed the crime she is accused of accused and murdered her five-year-old son. , I do not believe that there is any punishment for the murder of an innocent five year old child, so we must now ask whether this goal is achieved in cases like this, even if we assume that She is sentenced to life imprisonment. carry out the punishment for such a monstrous act? The second objective, deterrence, is to ensure that others are prevented from engaging in criminal acts as such for fear of repercussions. I believe that in the case of Lodzinski it fully fulfills this objective. However, the third goal, neutralization, is, in my opinion, wrong in this case, because this goal is to prevent an offender like Lodzinski from committing further crimes in society, if she had indeed murdered her child, she murdered him in 1991, which would mean she is free and living her life for 25 years after committing such a heinous crime. Therefore, with regard to this objective, our criminal justice