23.11.23 - Dealing with Offending Behaviour: Custodial Sentencing

Question 1

What is custodial sentencing?

Answer 1

CONVICTED offender spends time in PRISON or another CLOSED insitution

Question 2

What are the four aims of custodial sentencing?

Answer 2

Deterrence, incapacitation, rehablitation and retribution

Question 3

What is deterrence?

Answer 3

UNPLEASANT prison experience designed to DISCOURAGE offender or society from ENGAGING in offending behaviour

Question 4

What is incapacitation?

Answer 4

Offender ISOLATED from rest of society to PROTECT the public

Question 5

What is rehabilitation?

Answer 5

Prison REFORMS offender through access to PROGRAMMES and DEVELOPING skills

Question 6

What is retribution?

Answer 6

Offender SUFFERS as society is taking REVENGE for OFFENDER’s crimes

Question 7

What are the three psychological effects of custodial sentencing?

Answer 7

Stress and depression, institutionalisation and prisonisation

Question 8

What is stress and depression in relation to custodial sentencing?

Answer 8

• SUICIDE rates are much more higher in prisons than in outside world
• Stress of PRISON EXPERIENCE increases likelihood of PSYCHOLOGICAL disorders

Question 9

What is institutionalisation in relation to** custodial sentencing**?

Answer 9

• INMATES cannot cope with ORDINARY life after getting ACCUSTOMED to norms and rules of prison
• May REOFFEND to get that structure of life back

Question 10

What is prisonisation?

Answer 10

• Refers to way in which prisoners SOCIALISED into ADOPTING ‘inmate code’
• Behaviour maybe NOT tolerated in outside world could be ENCOURAGED and REWARDED inside instutition

Question 11

What is a strength of custodial sentencing?