Policies Flashcards
Death penalty in the uk
Temporarily abolished in 1965
Abolished in 1969
Death penalty doesn’t work because:
Murder rate 25%
Not a deterrent - violence in heat of moment
Under influence of drugs or alcohol
While suffering from mental illness
Eugenics definition
The belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human race
Nazi sterilised
400,000
Eugenics does work:
Prevents child being subjected to criminal parents
No criminal offspring - reduces crime
Eugenics does not work
Ignores environmental factors
Unethical
Psychoanalysis does work
Works as well as cognitive behaviour therapy
Psychoanalysis does not work
Costly and time consuming
Gives analysis to determine what’s normal and not normal - homosexual
Eyesnck found only 44% patients improved
Behaviour modification- token economies does work
Offenders take longer to reoffend than those not in the programme
Fo and Donnel 1975 created buddy system - had an improved effect
Token economies does not work
When leave prison - reoffend
Places in USA used unethically - not providing food and water for bad behaviour
Aversion therapy definition
Pairing a criminal act with discomfort
Sex offenders - nausea
Aversion therapy does work
Successful whilst under direction of therapist
Aversion therapy does not work
High relapse once exposed to real world
Increases anger and hostility in patients
High links of depression and suicide - conversion therapy
Prison - right realism example
Wandsworth prison
One of largest in Europe
1628 prisoners
Prison does work
As a deterrence
