Crime control policies

Question 1

Individualistic- Token economy?

Answer 1

Skinner, where prisoners get rewarded for their good behaviour, can be effective but not all prisoners care for it

Question 2

Individualistic- Psychoanalysis?

Answer 2

Freud, patient sits facing away and explains to therapist why their criminal activity happened, uses free association, dream analysis and hypnosis to access the unconscious mind

Question 3

Biological- eugenics?

Answer 3

Prevents criminals from having children, selective breeding in a way

Question 4

Biological- death penalty?

Answer 4

Harsher punishment for harsher crimes, could be explained, gross miscarriage of justice

Question 5

Sociological- zero tolerance?

Answer 5

Harsher punishments, works in heavily populated areas with high policing levels

Question 6

Sociological- penal populism?

Answer 6

Media attention driving harsher sentences on crime, approach impacted the prison population, causes overcrowding and budget cuts, 64% went and reoffended within a year