Sentencing Flashcards
Rehabilitation Point
When a criminal is recarneated, they are effectively helped criminals cope with the outside world once they have finished their sentence, this is an attempt to prevent them from committing another crime.
Rehab k
In 2019 BOJO announced a £100m program to crack down on crime in prisons and boost rehabilitation.
Rehab Balance Point
However despite this many people still reoffend and end up back in prison, this is often referred to as the Revolving Door in prisons and community service has a much lower reoffending rate.
Rehab Balance K
Recently according to a Higher Modern Studies textbook reconviction rate was at a 20 year low because of greater use of community service.
Eval rehab
Non custodial better
Deference
Prisons are set up to scare people away from committing crimes as they don’t want to go to prison.
Deter k
Recently not been effective as the prison population has been increasing across the U.K. this century and in 2018 in Northern Ireland the Prison Population was 36% higher than it was in 2000.
Deter Boost
Norwegian prisons are much softer than British prisons and don’t aim to scare people from committing crimes with Deterance just like non custodial Sentencing
Deter Boost K
Norway had 49 prisoners per 100,000 and Scotland had 162 per 100,000.
Eval Deter
Pointless
Punish point
Prisons aim to make inmates lives tough because they have made their victums lives tough.
Punish k
In 2018-19 there were 91 suicides in English and Welsh Prisons.
Punish bal k
Community Payback Orders can be anything between 80 hours and 300 hours allowing a Perpetrator have plenty of time to see family.
Punish point balance
Community service meanwhile is not a good form of punishment as people can still see friends and family.
Eval punish
Custodial better