3.3

Question 1

describe how recidivism rates can cause limitations for agencies in achieving social control

Answer 1

stats:
- Ministry of Justice stats (Jan-March 2022) - 25.1% adult reoffending rate.
- stats from Bromley fact files suggest a 41,000 increase in the number of prisoners from between 1993 and 2015.

• shows punishment isn’t effective, lead to rise in prison pop
• increase in pop impacts ability to rehab, increasing pop size so becomes a vicious cycle
• increased pop means limited budget so further reduces available resources
• ratio of prisoners and staff widened so increased violence directed towards prisoners and staff
• increase in released prisoners so social provision is limited, prisoners feel have few options so reoffend.
  provision includes finance, employment and housing.
• explanation - prisons called ‘universities of crime’ in studies of Bandura and Sutherland.
  individuals learn crime through diff associations in family and peer groups through imitation of criminal acts and socialisation with other criminals exposing them to pro-crime attitudes.