Non-Custodial Sentencing Flashcards
Community Payback Orders
This is when a Perpetrator must complete a certain amount of hours of unpaid community service over a six month period.
Community k
Community Payback Orders can be anything between 80 hours and 300 hours allowing a Perpetrator have plenty of time to see family.
Community Boost Point
Community Service helps the offender reconnect with the community and attempt to make up for what they’ve done which encourages many to not reoffend.
Community Boost k
Recently according to a Higher Modern Studies textbook reconviction rate was at a 20 year low because of greater use of community service.
Community Eval
Very effective
Electronic Tagging Point
This is when a perpetrator has an electronic tag attacked to their ankle. If the tagged person leaves the house at a time in which he/she is not allowed to leave then an alarm inside the house will alert the police.
Electronic Tagging k
There are about 1,000 perpetrators with tags in Scotland who avoid being in prisons and get influenced by other inmates.
Tags Balance Point
People can still commit crimes when they have an electronic tag.
Tags Balance k
Teenager Charlie Hurd stabbed a youth worker to death after ripping off his tag.
Tags Eval
Not Effective
Fiscal Disposal Orders
An alternative to a court case allowing the police to issue fiscal disposal orders which consists of two main types which are fines and compensation. This is used to reduce the amount short term prisoners.
Fines K
In 2018/19 the average prisoner in Scotland cost £36k per year, Fines make the criminal give money to the Scottish Government instead of Scot Gov spending money. (Check about who fines paid to)
Fines Balance Point
Fines are often fixed and can not be afforded by many people forced to pay a fine meaning not everyone pays.
Fines Balance k
In 2020 many people were fined up to £10,000 for hosting a party during the Covid 19 Pandemic.
Fines Eval
Not Effective
