Aims of Sentencing
- Created by: Samantha Hall-Burnett
- Created on: 05-04-13 13:38
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- Aims of Sentencing
- Protection of the Public
- often achieved through incapacitation
- community sentence of curfew and tagging
- keeps offenders inside
- imprisonment
- for the length of the sentence they cant commit further crime
- death penalty- most effective form as they can no longer commit crime and it sets an example for other offenders/the society. Although this is noo longer legal in the UK
- Sex offenders:chemical castration
- in this country they have to volunteer
- driving disqualification
- keeps the offenders off the road
- community sentence of curfew and tagging
- often achieved through incapacitation
- Punishment
- Retribution and revenge for victim and community
- For victim and community
- Proportionate- "let the punishment fit the crime" - 'an eye for an eye'
- Denunciation- society expressing dissaproval of crime
- For victim and community
- Retribution and revenge for victim and community
- Reduction of Crime
- Individual Deterance-detering the offender from reoffending
- General Deterance- judge gives harsher sentence to set an example to society at large and deter public
- Reform and Rehabilitation
- Aimed at rehabilitating offenders and putting them back into society
- Commonly implemented through community sentences e.g DTTR-main aim of young offenders
- Aimed at rehabilitating offenders and putting them back into society
- Reperation
- Repairing the damage done e.g apologizing to the victim
- Compensation order-sum of money back to the victim
- Person is ordered to do unpaid work-paying back to the community
- Giving back stolen goods to victim
- Protection of the Public
- Protection of the Public
- often achieved through incapacitation
- community sentence of curfew and tagging
- keeps offenders inside
- imprisonment
- for the length of the sentence they cant commit further crime
- death penalty- most effective form as they can no longer commit crime and it sets an example for other offenders/the society. Although this is noo longer legal in the UK
- Sex offenders:chemical castration
- in this country they have to volunteer
- driving disqualification
- keeps the offenders off the road
- community sentence of curfew and tagging
- often achieved through incapacitation
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