forensics: custodial sentencing ao1 Flashcards
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4 ways to deal with offending beh named on the spec
Custodial sentencing
Behaviour modification in custody
Anger management
Restorative justice
What is custodial sentencing
Involves a convicted offender being punished by serving time in prison or another institution like young persons institute or psychiatric hospital
4 main aims of custodial sentencing
Rehabilitation
Retribution
Deterrence
Incapacitation
Rehabilitation
opportunity to learn new skills (through training) and behaviour ( therapy)
Retribution
Society is enacting revenge for the crime by punishing the offender
A crime has been committed and should receive a suitable punishment
Deterrence - 2 types
Threat of an unpleasant expirence serves to prevent the behaviour in the future
Individual deterrence - preventing the offender from committing the same crime in the future
General deterrence - deter the rest of the population from committing the same crime
Incapacitation
The offender is out of action thus preventing further reoffending
This should protect other people in society from becoming victims
What is recidivism
- Issue of re offending
- due to dev pro criminal attitudes or drug addiction
stat for recidivism rate
study following uk criminals over 18 years, 77% of ex inmates went to reoffend
list 3 psychological effects of custodial
- stress and depression
- institutionalisation
- prisonisation
explain stress and depression
-suicide rates and self harm are higher in prison then general pop
explain institutionalisation
inability to function outside of prison having adapted to norms and routines of prison life
explain prisonisation
behaviours which are unacceptable outside prison are encouraged via socialisation into an innmate code
