Custodial Sentencing Flashcards
Rehabilitate Point
When a prisoner is recarneated, they are effectively helped to cope with the outside world once they have finished their sentence, this is an attempt to prevent them from committing another crime.
Rehab K
In 2019 BOJO announced a £100m program to crack down on crime in prisons and boost rehabilitation.
Rehab Balnce Point
However despite this many people still reoffend and end up back in prison, this is often referred to as the Revolving Door.
Rehab Balance k
2019- Reoffending rate was 50%
Eval Rehab
Not successful
Deterance Point
Prisons are set up to scare people away from committing crimes as they don’t want to go to prison.
Deterance k
Recently not been effective as the prison population has been increasing across the U.K. this century and in 2018 in Northern Ireland the Prison Population was 36% higher than it was in 2000.
Deterance Boost point
Norwegian prisons are much softer than British prisons yet they have had much lower reoffending rate than us.
Deterance Boost k
Norway had 49 prisoners per 100,000 and Scotland had 162 per 100,000 in 2020
Eval Deter
Very uneffective
Punishment point
Prisons aim to make inmates lives tough because they have made their victums lives difficult. However some people would argue that prisoners have too many luxuries making prisons too soft.
Punishment k
Berwyn Prison- Prisoners are given £1k a month to spend on luxuries such as DVDs, and other electronic items for example.
Punishment Balance Point
Despite luxuries prisoners have a tough time behind bars and often suffer from mental illnesses while in prison (which is often caused by not being able to see family and friends)
Punishment Balance K
In 2018-19 there were 91 suicides in English and Welsh Prisons.
Eval Punishment
Effective but some may argue too effective
