Application: Strategies for reducing reoffending Flashcards
How can Gillis and Nafekh’s findings be used as a strategy to reduce re-offending?
They found that if there are employment schemes in place for when prisoners leave prison, they are less likely to re-offend, therefore this can be used as a strategy.
How can prison as a punishment be used as a strategy to reduce re-offending?
Operant conditioning is used so that criminals associate the unpleasant experience in prison with committing crime, and are therefore less likely to re-offend and be sent back to prison.
What is restorative justice?
- A process that tries to recognise the needs of the actual victim
- Victim and offender are brought together and the victim is able to explain the impact of the crime against them to the person who did it
How can restorative justice help to reduce re-offence rates?
The offender will see how much of an impact their crime has had, and therefore they will be less likely to re-offend as they will hopefully feel bad about what they have done.
How can restorative justice be good for the victim?
The victim can get some closure as to why the offender did it and what they did to deserve it.
