Dealing With Offending Behaviour

Question 1

4 ways to deal with offending beh named on the spec

Answer 1

Custodial sentencing
Behaviour modification in custody
Anger management
Restorative justice

Question 2

What is custodial sentencing

Answer 2

Involves a convicted offender being punished by serving time in prison or another institution like young persons institute or psychiatric hospital

Question 3

4 main aims of custodial sentencing

Answer 3

Rehabilitation
Retribution
Deterrence
Incapacitation

Question 4

Rehabilitation

Answer 4

The expirence of punishment leads to the offender becoming a changed individual such that they will not offend
Effective programmes required in prisons
Eg drug related programmes, anger management, teaching literacy

Question 5

Retribution

Answer 5

Society is enacting revenge for the crime by punishing the offender
A crime has been committed and should receive a suitable punishment

Question 6

Deterrence - 2 types

Answer 6

Threat of an unpleasant expirence serves to prevent the behaviour in the future
Individual deterrence - preventing the offender from committing the same crime in the future
General deterrence - deter the rest of the population from committing the same crime

Question 7

Incapacitation

Answer 7

The offender is out of action thus preventing further reoffending
This should protect other people in society from becoming victims

Question 8

What is recidivism and what does it suggest

Answer 8

Issue of re offending

The Prison Reform Trust (2014) reports that 46% of adults are reconvicted within one year of release and over 67% of under 18s are reconvicted within a year.
• The cost of such re-offending is at least £9.5 billion per year for the economy.
• Recidivism rates suggest that punishment (and rehabilitation)
doesn’t work.