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Deterrance - Coggle Diagram
Deterrance
Criticisms
There is very little evidence to support that short sharp shocks or boot camps reduce youth offending.
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For deterrence to work, people need to be aware of the punishments.
Deterrence assumes that criminals act rationally, but usually, when people commit crimes, they are not "thinking straight" and so, how can we expect then to be thinking about the potential punishment during the crime.
Short, Sharp Shock
During the 80's and under the governing of Margaret Thatcher we saw the introduction of the short, sharp shock initiative,
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It was believed that if offenders received a "short, sharp shock" in prison, then they would be deterred from ever committing a crime again.
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After this had taken place, many of the now grown up mean who had been subject to this went on to reoffend or have serious mental health issues.
The reason for a high reoffending rate was due to the resentment they had developed for authority after being subject to sometimes horrific abuse as a means of deterrent.
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Social Learning Theory
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Suggests that seeing people being punished for a crime will make us less likely to imitate their behaviour.
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