ac3.4: evaluate the effectiveness of agencies in achieving social control - prisons

Question 1

how do prisons achieve social control?

Answer 1

• lock up prisoners
• rehabilitate
• protect the public and offenders

Question 2

how are prisons effective?

Answer 2

• protect the public from dangerous offenders
• provide rehabilitation and punishment
• can use tactics to help social control like token economies

Question 3

quotations - effective

Answer 3

• bromley briefings = assaults and serious offences declined during the pandemic

Question 4

how are prisons ineffective?

Answer 4

-multiple issues in prison - reoffending, overcrowding, violence, attacks on staff, self harm, suicide, mental health issues

Question 5

statistics - ineffective

Answer 5

bromley briefings
- 178 people died of natural causes in the year to September 2023, this is 44% higher than a decade ago
- self inflicted deaths are nearly 4x more likely in men in prison compared to the general population
- 304 people died in prison in the year to september 2023, 92 were self inflicted
- in the last 5 years, 21% of self inflicted deaths occurred in the first 30 days, 49% of these were in the first week
- over 1/3 of prisons are ‘of concern’ or ‘serious concern’
- the prison system has been overcrowded every year since 1994
- prison staff cut by 26% from 2010-2017
- reoffending rates are 42% for adults, 63% for short sentences

Question 6

quotations - ineffective

Answer 6

• itv news = uk prison systems in deep crisis, report warns