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Elizabeth Gibbens Assignment #2 April 13, 2004 Doing Justice (I) The "Just Deserts" model of punishment advocated by Andrew von Hirsch is a model concerned solely with justice and utility is reduced to a secondary interest. Von Hirsch's work focuses on the revise of the rationale for punishment through the study of the disposition of the convicted criminal. The purpose of the study was to "identify principles that would govern decisions about how severely offenders should be punished". The principles would then be used to determine when to incarcerate and how alternatives could be constructed and utilized. Von Hirsch's analysis of the punishment system began with three conventional assumptions of the disposition of the criminal. First, the disposition should rehabilitate (sentence for treatment), some examples of programs were changing the character of the institution, probation, increased supervision on the streets, vocational programs and "community-based" treatment programs that took place in residential centers. However, the...

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