custodial sentancing

Question 1

Rehabilitation

Answer 1

• reform offender through some form of education
• allows offenders to leave prison better adjusted and ready to re-enter society

Question 2

Retribution

Answer 2

• linked to society enacting revenge for the crime by making the offender suffer
• should be proportionate to the crimes committed

Question 3

Incapacitation

Answer 3

• offender taken out of society to prevent re-offending and protect the public
• depends on the severity of the offence

Question 4

Detterance

Answer 4

• prison designed to put off an individual or society from engaging in offending behaviour
• based on behaviourism - operant
• SLT for public, as vicarious reinforcement

Question 5

Limitation of custodial sentancing

Answer 5

• negative psychological effects
• curt bartol; ‘prison is brutal, demeaning and generally devastating’
• 15x higher suicide rates than society
• 25% female, and 15% males suffered from server psychosis
• doesnt state how many had symptoms pre-prison
• confounding variables

Question 6

Strength of custodial sentancing

Answer 6

• Vera institute of justice
• claims offenders who take part in college education programmes are 43% less likely to re-offend
• changes outcome for prisoners
• however its only 43%, not even 50/50 chance of it being successful

Question 7

Psychological affects of custodial sentencing

Answer 7

• anxiety, self-harm, suicide
• Zimbardo and Curt Bartol as evidence
• labelling leads to loss of social contracts, reduced to employability -> effects recidivism
• institutionalisation -> lack of autonomy, conforming to roles and dependency culture