F10. DwOB: Custodial Sentencing Flashcards
Aims of Custodial Sentencing
Deterrence: ‘put off’ individuals and society from crimes
Incapacitation: protect public from criminal
Retribution: ‘eye for an eye’ proportional punishment
Rehabilitation: opportunities for training and treatment, address distal cause of issue
Effects of Custodial Sentencing
Stress, Depression, Institutionalisation (adjusting to outside life), Prisonisation
Britain vs Norway Recidivism
Britain = retribution = high
Norway = rehabilitation = low
- Eval: not universally effective
Effectiveness varies, therefore not universally effective.
- dispositional traits of the convict
- length of sentence
- previous prison experience
- type of prison
- number/gender of officers
+ Eval: Rehabilitation Opportunity
- Sex Offenders = CBT schemes
- Violent Offenders = anger management
- Token economy schemes
- Restorative justice schemes
- Eval: Politics may influence custodial sentencing
- Public majority favours punishment
- Politicians may ‘toughen up’ on offenders to appease the public.