There are five different goals of criminal sentences, and different types of sentences are designed to achieve different goals. The objectives are: Retributive punishment inflicted on someone as revenge for a wrong or criminal act. The philosophy of incapacitation sentencing is the effect of a sentence in positively preventing (rather than simply deterring) future crimes. Imprisonment incapacitates the prisoner by physically removing him from the society against which he is believed to have offended. Deterrent punishment is a threat to deter people from crime. Deterrence is often contrasted with retributivism, which holds that punishment is a necessary consequence of a crime and should be calculated based on the severity of the wrong committed. Rehabilitation The process of rehabilitating a witness involves restoring the credibility of the witness following impeachment by the adversary. party. Rehabilitating an inmate means preparing him for a productive life once released from prison. Restoration Restorative justice is based on bringing together the victim, the offender and the community; everyone has equal shares in repairing relationships destroyed by