Advantages & Disadvantages of Custodial Sentences

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Advantages & Disadvantages of Custodial Sentences

Advantages

  • Consevatives- Protects public from danger, can't commit crimes in prison
  • Opportunity to rehabilitate (education) whilst being a detterence
  • Criminal Justice Act 2003- house off violent offenders, Levelled off over two years
  • Fewer women then men- 4,000/82,000- damaging to women- over half suffered DV
  • Depriving Freedom- Victims at the heart, helps achieve closure so it's fair

Disadvantages

  • Most offenders only in for half their sentence- Limited effect
  • 59% are re convicted within 2 years if release - Spend more time with prisoners gain more bad habits
  • Prison population increased by 50% in the last 10 years- Highest in Europe, conditions poor
  • 70% Women prisoners experienced Mental Health problems- 17,000 kids seperated from mums- Re-offend
  • Expensive and overcrowded- Human rights improved, Larger tax spent - could go to something better. £38,000 per prisoner, per year

Evaluation

-Prisons are over-crowded and have changed in the amount of money we have to spend. Most Offenders tend to re-offend and we have the highest population in Europe. However it is acting as a deterrence and is protecting the public from danger 

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