Custodial and non-custodial sentences Flashcards
What rates are high in Scotland?
Reoffending rates
What does this show?
Custodial sentences are not effective in lowering crime rates.
What is Rehabilitation?
An example of a non-custodial response to dealing with crime.
What does Rehabilitation focus on?
Making criminals better according to societal standards and has proven to be more effective than custodial sentences.
For example?
As of 2017/18 49% of those who faced a custodial sentence of a year or less in prison after release were reconvicted within a year.
What % of those who face a non-custodial sentence reoffend?
30%
What does this show?
Rehabilitation is more effective than prison.
What has impacted the rehabilitation system in recent years?
The Covid-19 Pandemic
What has Audit Scotland said?
Since covid our sentencing has become inconsistent with all non-custodial sentences.
What can custodial sentences do?
Keep offenders off the streets away from people in order to protect society.
What is often not considered with this?
The safety and well-being of the prisoners
What do Scottish prisons have?
A high population which has risen by 80% over the past 30 years with 138 prisoners per 100,000 people in Scotland.
What can overcrowding of prisons lead to?
It allows prisons to become a source of information for prisoners to learn how to become more successful criminals.
What did a survey from the Prison Reform Trust show?
less than 1 in 10 people said that custodial sentences are more effective than non-custodial sentences.
