Custodial Sentencing
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- Created on: 20-05-15 11:05
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- Custodial Sentencing
- Key Terms
- Probation
- Release on certain terms
- Custodial Sentencing
- Being incarcerated
- Recidivism
- Reoffending
- Probation
- Aims of Sentencing
- Rehabilitation
- To cure offender from deviance e.g. Drugs
- Deterrance
- Prevention for committing or recommitting crime
- Retribution
- Punishment. The more serious the crime, the harsher the punishment
- Protection From Society
- Serious offenders should be kept away from the public
- Rehabilitation
- REICHER & HASLAM
- Managed to resist the sort of situational pressures that Zimbardo's participants succumbed to
- Recidivism & Planned return to society programmes
- Without planned return to society, prison can seem to be an easier way of life
- 65% of prisoners re-offend within 2 years of being released. 18-20's rises to 70%
- Prison's record of reducing recidivism is poor
- GILLIS & NAPER
- You offer prisoners behavioural control over their lives by finding them work
- Overcrowding
- Prisoners from overcrowded prisons are more likely to re-offend
- Prisoners need new skills before leaving
- Some prisoners have Maths and English skills on an 11 year old
- Statistics
- UK prison population= 85348
- Capacity of UK jails= 87902
- Males in jail= 81524
- Females in jail= 3824
- Prisoner cost= £40000 per year
- Key Terms
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