Dealing with offending behaviour: Custodial sentencing Flashcards
Custodial sentencing
a judicial sentence determined by the court, where the offender is punished by serving time in prison (incarceration) or another institution e.g. psychiatric hospital
Dealing with offending behaviour: Custodial sentencing
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Aims of custodial sentencing
└Deterrence, Incapacitations, Retribution, Rehabilitations
Aims of custodial sentencing
Deterrence
└unpleasant prison experience designed to put individual/society from offending
└2 levels of deterrence:
└general deterrence: sends a broad message to society that crime won’t be tolerated
└individual deterrence: prevent individual from repeating same crime
└based on behaviourist idea of conditioning through punishment
Aims of custodial sentencing
Incapacitations
└offender taken out of society= cant reoffend= protects public
└especially in violent cases e.g. murderers, rapists
Aims of custodial sentencing
Retribution
└revenge for society by making the offender suffer
└suffering proportional to seriousness of crime
Aims of custodial sentencing
Rehabilitations
└reform not punish
└to ensure offenders can contribute to society after prison
└develop skills
Aims of custodial sentencing
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Deterrence
Incapacitations
Retribution
Rehabilitations
The psychological effects of custodial sentencing
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Stress and depression
Institutionalisation
Prisonisation
The psychological effects of custodial sentencing
Stress and depression
└suicide rates higher in prison than in general population
└and self harm
The psychological effects of custodial sentencing
Institutionalisation
└offenders become accustomed to routines of prison life so not able to function in normal society
The psychological effects of custodial sentencing
Prisonisation
└prisoners are socialised into adopting an ‘inmate code’
└behaviour encouraged in prison not acceptable in society
recidivism
reoffending
The problem of recidivism
└recidivism: reoffending
└statistics from the ministry of justice in2013 suggests that 57% of UK offenders will reoffend within a year
└2007- 14 prisons in England and wales recorded reoffending rates over 2007
└recidivism rates higher in UK that Norway
└Norway more focused on skills development and rehabilitation
└critics say it’s the soft option, doesn’t punish enough
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