Control, Prevention and Punishment
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- Created on: 03-04-18 14:55
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- Control, Prevention and Punishment
- Criminal Justice System
- Role
- Deterring people from crime
- Protect the public from crime/ offenders
- Punishing criminal behaviour
- Reforming or rehabilitating criminal
- Stages
- 1. Questioning
- 2. Arrests
- 3. Charge
- 4. Bail/ remand custody
- 5. Trial
- 6. conviction
- 7. sentence
- Role
- Punishment
- Concerned with preventing crime
- Concerned with punishing already committed crimes
- Joyce
- he explains why punishment might be necessary
- Deterrence
- it brings offenders to justice and publicly punishing them will encourage potential offenders to think twice about committing
- it can be individual or general
- For example, individual deterrence might involve having an unfixed sentence so that they can show they have changed before being released
- General deterrence might entail having a very harsh punishment so that people are scared to offend
- Incapacitation
- it is aimed at protecting potential victims by stopping offenders repeating crime
- This includes
- Imprisonment
- Capital punishment, permanent imprisonment
- Restrictions of offenders freedom outside prison
- Rehabilitation
- This is changing the offenders values and behaviours in order to top them from committing crimes
- this is through psychologicaland educational programmes
- as well as community service etc
- its to encourage them to conform to society's predominant normal and values
- Retribution
- Aimed at giving a fair punishment to the offender who have done harm to others
- it may be seen as satisfying the desire of victims and their families for what is seen as justice
- It links to restitution which means the offender should restore/ make amends on what they have down wrong
- such as making a financial payment
- Aimed at giving a fair punishment to the offender who have done harm to others
- Deterrence
- he explains why punishment might be necessary
- Perspectives on Punishment
- Functionalist
- it reinforces social solidarity and reaffirms the boundaries between right and wrong
- Criticism
- It assumes that there is a consensus in society, where as in reality there may be different views on what is moral and what isn't
- Durkhiem
- Marxist
- the law is not a product of shared beliefs of members of society, but a product of beliefs from the ruling class
- Criticism
- They take little account of gender or ethnicity
- and there is the occasional time where capitalists find themselves on the wrong side of the law and end up being imprisoned
- Functionalist
- Criminal Justice System
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