Forms and functions Flashcards
What are the Criminal Justice Systems 4 aims?
Deterrence- scared committing crime don’t do it.
Public protection- prevent catch offenders.
Retribution- make sure pp get deserve for wrong doings.
Rehabilitation- aiding individuals into reformation.
Does deterrence work?
Victim surveys- most crime not reported.
Crawford and Evans- prevention than prosecution.
How do Functionalists feel about punishment?
Give an example.
Represents collective conscience contributes to social cohesion.
E.g., public execution
How do conflict theorists feel about punishment?
Rusche and Kirchheimer- labour dynamics influence punishment in society.
Punishment for working-class harsher due to alienation.
Give a stat that supports the Marxist view that marginalisation causes people to end up in jail.
Prison population doubled since 1993, 40000-90000.
71% kids in custody involved with social services before entering custody.
What do Left Realists believe the CJS needs to do?
combined with restorative justice.
Offenders doing something to make up for harm caused due to crime.
Aims bring healing to offender, victims, unlike prison sentences.
What do Right Realists claim has decreased the crime rate?
Locking more pp up
According to Goffman what happens to inmates in institutions?
“mortification of the self” – inmates identity removed.
According to postmodernist Foucault, we live in a surveillance society what is this?
power in society exerted from everywhere, behaviour watched and restrained.
E.g., in prisons invade privacy.
Give an example of a prison system that encourages a surveillance society.
panopticon (like in GOTG).
Prisoners under surveillance all the time, limiting behaviour
