AC2.2 Discuss the Aims of Punishment

Across

• 1. - Reform offenders and reintroduce them into society - Aiming to alter an offenders mindset to prevent reoffending in the future - Presumes criminal behaviour is a result of free will and rational choice (14)
• 4. -Community sentences could involve unpaid work or completion of an education course, and treatment for addictions such as alcohol or drugs. This may aid rehab (5, 7)
• 5. - Offender deserves punishment - Display of public revulsion for the offence - Contains an element of revenge (society and victim avenged for the wrong done) ( death penalty, eye for an eye) - Does not seek to alter future behaviour, merely to inflict pun (11)
• 6. Individualistic theories of criminality would support rehabilitation. Behaviour modification treatment such as anger management cources focus on techniques to extinguish undesirable behaviours and promote desirable ones (5, 6)
• 7. - Prevent potential offenders from committing a crime - However, impact of a sentence with a deterrent element is weakened since it only relates to someone else - People are not always aware of the punishment that has been given unless its severe enough t (7, 10)
• 8. Left realism - reparation as a way of providing practical measures to reduce crime and produce a long term change to a more equal caring society (10, 6)