2.2 Flashcards
What are the 6 aims of punishment and their key terms?
- Retribution - proportionate, eye for an eye, revenge, just deserts, backward looking
- Rehabilitation - reforming, root causes, forward looking, reintegration, young offenders
- Deterrence - discourage, fear of punishment, prevent future crimes, individual, general
- Public protection - incapacitation, public safety, high risk offenders
- Reparation - making amends, compensating victims, accountability and reconciliation, restorative justice
- Denunciation - society’s disapproval, publicly condemning, social cohesion, backward looking
What 4 punishments meet the aim to retribution?
- Mandatory life sentence for murder
- Whole life tariff
- Fines
- Capital punishment
What 2 case examples can be used for retribution?
- Lucy Letby - whole life tariff
- Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen - last to be executed through death penalty in uk before it was abolished in 1965
What are the 5 punishments that meet the aim of rehabilitation?
- Drug rehabilitation programmes
- Community therapy
- Prison education
- Community payback
- Probation
What case example can be used for rehabilitation?
Jason Warr - convicted of murder, spent 12 years in prison, during his time he participated in educational programmes which helped him get a uni degree
What 6 punishments meet the aim of deterrence?
Individual:
1. Suspended sentence
2. Electronic monitoring (tagging)
3. Short custodial sentences
General:
1. Lengthy custodial sentences
2. Community payback
3. Driving bans
What case example can be used for deterrence?
London riots 2011- overly harsh sentencing
What 4 punishments meet the aim of public protection?
- Whole life orders
- Electronic tags
- Restraining orders
- Banning orders
What case example can be used for public protection?
Wayne couzens - police officer who raped and murdered Sarah Everard, was given a whole life order which permanently removed him from society so he can’t commit any further damage
What are the 3 punishments that meet the aim of reparation?
- Criminal compensation orders
- Community payback
- Restorative justice
What case example can be used for reparation?
BP oil spill - BP payed $20.8 billion which seeks to repair the harm caused to victims and the environment
What 4 punishments meet the aim of denunciation?
- Public sentencing orders
- Harsher sentencing for hate crimes
- Whole life orders
- Sex offenders registry
What case example can be used for denunciation?
Lucy Letby - serving whole life tariff which emphasises the societal outrage of such abhorrent crimes
