External Flashcards
1
Q
What are the external forms of social control?
A
- The CJS
- Coercion
- Fear of Punishment
2
Q
How is the CJS a form of social control?
A
- Contains many agencies of social control that are able to use legal sanctions.
- Police, judges, lay magistrates, prisons, probation.
3
Q
How are the police a form of social control?
A
- They are able to give penalty notices, cautions, conditional cautions and arrests.
4
Q
How a judges a form of social control?
A
- They are able to give fines, community sentences and custodial sentences.
5
Q
How are prisons a form of social control?
A
- They are able to give solitary confinement and remove privileges.
6
Q
How are probation a form of social control?
A
- They are able to give curfews and tagging.
7
Q
How is coercion a form of social control?
A
- Use of threat/force to make/stop someone from doing something.
- Can be physical/psychological violence.
- UK: being detained and imprisoned.
- Some countries use physical restraint or force if no compliance.
8
Q
How is fear of punishment a form of social control?
A
- Deterrence: right realists argue fear of being punished ensures what would-be criminals will obey law.
- Individual and general deterrent.
9
Q
What is individual deterrent?
A
- Person who’s committed a crime is given a punishment e.g. suspended sentence or conditional discharge.
- Designed to deter them for committing again otherwise they’ll face a more severe punishment.
10
Q
What is general deterrent?
A
- Other deterred out of fear of committing a similar offence others are being punished for.
- Mandatory minimums.
11
Q
What is the mandatory minimum for a 3rd drug offence?
A
7 years.
