the role of custodial sentencing

Question 1

what is custodial sentencing

Answer 1

a decicion made by the court that punishment for a crime should involve time being in custody

Question 2

what are the 4 roles/aims of custodial sentencing?

Answer 2

deterrence
incapacitatation
retribution
rehabilitation

Question 3

what is deterrence?

Answer 3

unpleasant prison experience puts off individual and society
-general and individual deterrence
-behaviourist idea

Question 4

what is incapaciatation?

Answer 4

The offender is taken out of society to prevent them reoffending
-depends of severity of offense

Question 5

what is retribution?

Answer 5

society is enacting revenge for the offense by making the offender suffer a level that is proportionate to the seriousness of the offense

Question 6

what is rehabilitation?

Answer 6

purpose is too reform- offenders should leave prison better adjusted and ready to take their place back in society- offenders should have opportunities for skills and treatment.

Question 7

what are 3 psychological effects of custodial sentencing?

Answer 7

institutionalisation
prisonation
stress and depression

Question 8

What is institutionalisation?

Answer 8

when innmates adapt to the norms and values of prison life and become so accustomed that they are no longer able to function on the outside

Question 9

what is prisonation?

Answer 9

prisonation refers to the way prisoners are socialised into adopting the ‘inmate code’- behaviour that is unacceptable in the outside world is encouraged and rewarded in prison

Question 10

what is the effect of stress and depression?

Answer 10

suicide rates are higher in prison than in the general population with an increaded risk of developing psychological disorders following release