Dealing With Offenders- Custody Flashcards
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The purpose of custodial sentencing (4 reasons)
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- Deterrence
- Incapacitation
- Rehabilitation
- Retribution
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Deterrence
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- This is the idea that prisons should be an unpleasant someone who serves a sentence wouldn’t want to ever go back
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Incapacitation
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- Taking criminals off the street stops them from being able to commit further crimes-keeping society safer
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Retribution
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- Society is taking revenge on a criminal, making them pay for their crimes by taking their freedom away
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Rehabilitation
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- The idea that prisons can reform criminals through training, education, therapy so they leave prison a better person
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Psychological effects of custodial sentencing
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- Depression
- Stress
- Institutionalisation
- Prisonisation
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Bartol (1995)- effects of custodial sentencing
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- Imprisonment can be brutal, demanding and devastating
- Suicide rates have tended to be 15% higher than in the general population
- 25% of women and 15% of men have reported symptoms of psychosis
- These figures show that custodial sentencing is not effective in rehabilitating the individual, particularly those who are psychologically vulnerable
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Depression
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- Depression is caused by both helplessness and hopelessness
- These are both feelings that offenders entering prison may initially feel
- In 2008, 10,000 known incidents of self-harm were reported
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Institutionalisation
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- Having adapted to the norms of prison life, some find it impossible to then cope with ‘real life’
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Prisonisation
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- Some behaviours that are unacceptable in the outside world are encouraged and rewarded inside prison
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How effective are prisons- evidence
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- In 2013 study, they found that almost 60% will reoffend within the first year of release
- US and UK had the highest recidivism rates
- Many prisoners have not reached the levels of literacy and numeracy expected of an average 11 year old
- 50% of prisoners do not have the required skills for 96% of all jobs
