Deterrence
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- Created on: 18-05-13 11:27
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- Deterence
- Reductivist (Utilitarian) approach
- Can this justify prison?
- People in the riots got 4 years for "inciting disorder via facebook"
- Lack of consistency across offences - sexual assault and death by drink driving have similar average sentences
- To make an example of them but interviews with rioters said "we'll steal more/do more next time to make the punishment worth it"
- There are a lot of factors that influence offenders, e.g. addiction and therefore they may not always consider the punishment
- There is an expectation that life in prison should be worse than the life for the lowest class of individuals
- BBC documentary: some offenders think prison is better - gets them drug help quicker and don't have to worry about food etc
- Roof over head, food and gets to learn skills etc.
- Many offenders think "I wont get caught"
- From Bentham onwards - distinction between individual and general detterence.
- Deterring the offender from offending again. Individual Deterrence.
- Boot camps don't work - Wilson
- 'Three strikes and you're out' = little evidence on significant impact on crime Zimring.
- Someone got a life sentence for his third strike which was stealing a slice of pizza (changed on appeal as unfair - shows it doesn't work)
- Weisburd: white collar crime - few differences in re arrest rates for those who had been imprisoned and those who hadn't
- Chambliss: made clear the punishment of parking offences, violation reduced.
- Deterring other people from committing offences. General Deterrence
- Hirsch: Who decides how severe a punishment needs to be to deter others? Are we deterred by different things? What about offences with a large degree of emotion? Will the people you're trying to deter, know about the punishment just given?
- Beyleveld: unless you violate human rights, general deterrence policy will not control the crime rate.
- Bentham ' The punishment suffered by the offender presents to every one an example of what he himself will have to suffer, if he is guilty of the same offence'
- Deterring the offender from offending again. Individual Deterrence.
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