dealing with offending behaviour : custodial sentencing

Question 1

aims of custodial sentencing

Answer 1

1.deterrence
2.incapacitation
3.retribution = making offender suffer
4.rehabiliation

Question 2

psychological effects

Answer 2

1. stress and depression
2. institutionalisation = get used to prison life and hard to adjust to normal
3. prisonisation = adapt to prison life - gangs etc

Question 3

recidivism

Answer 3

-reoffending rates
-UK = 45% + US = 60% = focus on punishment
-norway = 20% = focus on rehabilitation

Question 4

strength / weakness

Answer 4

economic implications
-punishment = increase recidivism, crime and weaken economy in long term
-rehabilitation = decrease recidivism, crime and strengthen economy long term = inmates get jobs

Question 5

strength

Answer 5

support for negative effects
-prison reform trust = 25% of women + 15% of men experience psychosis (auditory hallucinations) - not good for vulnerable
-in 2016 a prisoner committed suicide every 3 days

Question 6

strength / weakness

Answer 6

when rehabilitation works
-access to education = improves employment
-college courses access = reduces recidivism rates by 43% with less violence