AC2.2- incapacitation

Question 1

explain

Answer 1

keep someone out of society so they don’t commit crimes eg prison

• sex offenders have been castrated
• IPP sentences, prove to parole board that they are safe
• Crime Sentences Act 1997 links with incapacitation as you will be in prison longer if you repeat offences, thus keeping them out of society

Question 2

what theory does it link to

Answer 2

biological theory
-if people are born criminals, we can’t rehabilitate them can only incapacitate them

right realism
- see it as a way of protecting the public from crime

Question 3

criticism

Answer 3

• leads to increase in prison population
• simply ‘holds’ people in to stop them committing crimes, it does nothing to address crime
• expensive
• IPP are unjust (crime control model presumes guilt)