Dealing With Criminals

Question 1

Aims of punishment

Answer 1

Rehabilitation
Deterrence
Incarceration (protect public)
Retribution

Question 2

Restorative justice

Answer 2

Combining with stakeholders to agree on punishment

Wachtel & mccold: combining remorse and rehabilitation best for punishment

Question 3

The Woolf within

Answer 3

-Followed a restorative justice
- drug addict and burglary
- offender felt genuinely affected when interacting with victim

Question 4

Culture of control (garland)

Answer 4

Concerned with controlling preventing and reducing risks of people becoming victims (private security etc)

Question 5

Braithwaite

Answer 5

Restorative justice most effective with reintegrative shaming

Question 6

Foucault (postmodernism)

Answer 6

Has been a change from sovereignty power (ruler showing supremacy, harsh punishments) to discipline power (private punishments, gentle)

• Foucault believes this is negative as punishment is hidden from view

Question 7

Neo Marxists

Answer 7

Rusche & kirchheimer:
- Punishment of criminals a method of control by powerful
- ruling class use power to avoid punishment & divert attention (kettling)

Althusser:
- repressive state apparatus where punishment aimed at wc