AC2.3 Flashcards
Aims of sentencing
- Retribution
- Deterrence
- Rehabilitation
- Incapacitation
- Reparation
Sentences
- Imprisonment
- Community Sentences
- Fines
- Discharges
Imprisonment
- Life sentence
- Indeterminate sentence (10,000)
- Determinate sentence (60-65,000)
- Suspended sentence (14% indictable offences)
Does Imprisonment meet retribution
*yes, revenge for committing crimes
* no - murder only punishable by death penalty.
Does imprisonment meet deterrence
*Yes, deters people from crime
*No - better than being homeless
Does imprisonment meet incapaciation
Yes - removes danger from society
Does imprisonment meet reparation
Depends - might bring victim justice knowing the offender is being punished
Does imprisonment meet rehabilitation
Yes - changes in behavioural thinking
No - prisons being crime schools
Community sentences
Too serious for discharge, not serious enough for a prison sentence
Community sentence types
- Probation officer
- 40-300 hours of unpaid work
- Residency programme
- Group programme
- Treatments/behaviour management
Does CS meet retribution
- Yes - freedom is stripped
Does CS meet reparation
Yes - pays back to society
Does CS meet incapacitation
- No - still roam freely in public
Does CS meet rehabiliation
- Yes - drug treatments/behavioural management
- No - group - schools of crime
Fines
- financial penalties for offending
- Often used by magistrates
Fines: size
- The offender themselves
- Circumstances of the crime
- Offenders ability to pay
- Which court hears the case
Do fines meet retibution
Yes - financially depraved due to their crime
Do fines meet deterrence
- Yes - individual
- No - general
Discharges
Two types
* Conditional: up to three years with conditions
* Absolute: no penalty is imposed
Discharges are only used for minor offences (despite Thirsk Rail Crash 1892)
