Rehabilitation

Question 1

Function:

Answer 1

Rehabilitation

Diagnosis, prediction & treatment selection

Individualises decision - offender’s needs be taken into account

All agencies = far greater amounts of discretion

Question 2

Stresses/favours:

Answer 2

Discretion

Treatment presumption

Individualises decision - offender’s needs be taken into account

Crime reduction through ‘treatment of causes’ and expertise

All must be not treated the same

Question 3

6 features of court:

Answer 3

Information collecting procedure

Individualisation/discretion

Treatment presumption

Discretion of decision-makers

Expertise of decision-makers/advisers

Relaxation of formal rules

Question 4

2 primary goals:

Answer 4

Treatment presumption

Crime reduction through ‘treatment of causes’

Question 5

Priorities:

Answer 5

Offender’s needs

Often presented as welfare rather than justice

Question 6

3 practices:

Answer 6

Information gathering

Diagnosis, analysis of ‘criminogenic risk factors’

Discretion

Question 7

Guilt

Answer 7

DISCRETION

Guilt = N/A

TREATMENT PRESUMPTION

WELFARE rather than justice

Question 8

Justice achieved if…

Answer 8

Discretion and individualisation of offender’s needs by non-legal personnel

Treatment focused of either internal/external factors

Question 9

Punishment =

Answer 9

Treatment of either INTERNAL factors (medical therapy, etc.) or EXTERNAL factors (employment, education, etc.).