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

Question 1

how do the probation achieve social control?

Answer 1

• reintroduce offenders back into society
• rehabilitate - help them get jobs and housing
• help with drug and alcohol addictions
• oversee people on a cs

Question 2

how is the probation service effective?

Answer 2

• help ex-offenders get jobs, hoising and treatment for addiction/mental health issues
• helps reduce the rate of recidivism

Question 3

statistics - effective

Answer 3

• gov = more than £300 million worth of extra funding given to the service since 2019, helped to move more than double the recruitment of officers - leads to more efficiency and less mistakes + reoffending

Question 4

how is the probation service ineffective?

Answer 4

• high reoffending rate - is this probations fault? they’re the first people the offender comes into contact with after prison
• most offenders go straight back into their pre-prison environment - this makes probations job harder

Question 5

cases - ineffective

Answer 5

• jordan davidson = he committed murder while under observation of the probation service. an independent review criticised the probation service for their failure to monitor him
• killamarsh killer (damien bendall) = he killed people while on probation, watchdog finds probation failings

Question 6

quotations - ineffective

Answer 6

• guardian = ‘irredeemably flawed’ - england and wales probation inspector criticism service
  = ‘probation service and ministers have ‘blood on hands’ say zara aleena’s family’
• bbc news = joseph mccann: serial rapist freed by ‘unstable probation staff’