Alternatives to Prison Flashcards
What are the 4 main alternatives to prison?
- Financial penalty
- Home Detention Curfew
- Community Payback Order
- Anti-Social Behavioural Order
What is a financial penalty?
When offenders are ordered to pay a fine or compensation to a victim or to the CJS.
What is an example of when many individuals were issued with financial penalties?
During Covid-19 when there were lockdown restrictions in place
What is a Home Detention Curfew?
When someone may serve their sentence at home under certain curfew conditions - they may be placed on an electronic tag.
Who was placed on a HDC after being found to be carrying a knife?
James Wright
What is a Community Payback order?
When offenders are ordered to carry out up to 300 hours of unpaid work, paying back to the community make up for the crime that they have committed.
What is the name of the individual who was issued a 120 hour CPO by Edinburgh Sheriff Court?
Rufus McLean
What is an anti-social behaviour order?
A ban placed on the offender to stop a behaviour that negatively impacts society.
Who was issued an ASBO for refusing to stop playing Dolly Parton on repeat in Peterhead?
Michael O’rourke (remember he eventually broke this and was sentenced to 4 months)
Why does Scotland have such an invested interest in alternatives to prison?
Scotland has one of the highest rates of prison occupancy in Europe.
What are three reasons as to why alternatives to prison are more effective?
- Better avoids reoffending
- Cheaper than prison
- Reduce/prevent overcrowding
How can alternative to prisons help people not reoffend?
They often mean that the offender can keep their job and home and instead receive help for issues that they might have
Summarise Eric Lavender and why he was given an alternative to prison?
He was given a fine instead of prison for embezzling meaning that he kept his job and paid back the money that he stole from his victim.
How do non-custodial sentences save the government and tax payer money?
As they do not need not need to finance the different elements of keeping someone incarcerated such as food, clothing, prison officers, medicine …
It costs roughly £40,000 to keep someone in jail for a year but how much does running a HDC for a year cost?
£6,500 - roughly about £126 a week according to families outside
