Ac2.3 Flashcards
(16 cards)
Recap:
What are the aims of sentencing?
Retribution
Rehabilitation
Reparation
Deterrence
Public Protection (incapacitation)
Aims of Sentencing for a prison sentence?
Retribution- Is the sentence proportionate?
Rehabilitation- Changing the mindset through education, employment and training.
Reparation- Rebuilding the harm caused via social harm through Restorative Justice.
Public Protection- Removal physically of the danger from society.
Reduces crime and likely victims.
Deterrence- the ‘fear’ of punishment, taking away their freedom and fear of losing attachments. Environment of prison keeps people away.
The negatives of Public protection on a prison sentence?
Offender may be released
Overcrowding/ population control
The negatives of retribution on a prison sentence?
‘proportionate’ is subjective and can be bias.
Moral panic can occur
The negatives of deterrence for a prison sentence?
High reoffending rates
The negatives of reparation for a prison sentence?
Restorative justice creates more trauma and doesn’t fit every crime
The negatives of rehabilitation for a prison sentence?
high reoffending rates
cannot find work
Aims of Sentencing for a Community sentence?
Retribution- Offender did something to not warrant prison but still restriction.
Rehabilitation- unpaid work, education and treatment programmes = learn skills to live a crime free life.
Reparation- material harm is fixed via unpaid work and social harm is that they’re visible in the community.
Public Protection- Probation service still supervises offenders, curfewed and restricted to protect the public.
Deterrence- High vis jackets to name and shame, general- public see group and doesn’t want the embarrassment, individual- the offender feels shame.
The negatives of retribution on a community sentence?
Sentence is viewed as soft
The negatives of rehabilitation for community sentence?
High rate of re offending
Lenient sentencing and its aims
The negatives of reparation for a community sentence?
High rate of reoffending
The negatives of Public protection on a community sentence?
The offender is not locked away
might not view it seriously
The negatives of deterrence for a community sentence?
Sentence is viewed as soft
High reoffending rate
Aims of Sentencing for a fine?
Retribution- physically paying back for their wrongdoing.
Proportionate/ deserved so crimes are monetary.
Reparation- financial compensation is material harm.
Deterrence- people don’t want to lose money
The negatives of deterrence for a fine?
So many unpaid fines they’re written off.
Sentence viewed as soft
Aims of Sentencing for discharge?
Rehabilitation- people will learn from their mistakes and make changes to live a crime free life.
Deterrence- the threat is the consequences will escalate if they reoffend, there’s a fear of going to court in general.
