Starter quiz
- Match the sentence type to its description.
- custodial sentence⇔spending time in prison ✓
- community sentence⇔carrying out work to pay back your local area ✓
- fine⇔paying money ✓
- discharge⇔no further punishment ✓
- Which might be classed as rehabilitation focused sentencing?
- Death penalty
- Life without parole
- Drug addiction treatment ✓
- Life sentence
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- Which might be classed as retribution focused sentencing?
- Alcohol addiction treatment
- Counselling
- Education support
- Life sentence ✓
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- What do victims also need to receive via sentencing?
- 'Justice' ✓
- Order these UK sentences with the harshest and most severe first.
- 1⇔Life without parole
- 2⇔Life sentence
- 3⇔Determinate sentence
- 4⇔Discharge
- What is the age of criminal responsibility in England and Wales?
- '10' ✓
Exit quiz
- Which two countries share a legal system?
- Scotland and Wales
- Scotland and England
- Wales and Norway
- England and Wales ✓
- England and the USA
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- What age do Scotland view young offenders?
- 18 and under
- 21 and under
- 16 and under
- 24 and under ✓
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- In Scotland, why are judges discouraged from giving prison sentences of 12 months or less?
- It makes judges look weak and too offender focused.
- Disruption of prison makes rehabilitation hard. ✓
- The paperwork of short sentences is lengthy.
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- What is a factor used to decide how effective a country's sentencing is?
- 'Reoffending rates' ✓
- Why do Norway spend a lot of money on prison and prisoners?
- So they don't recieve complaints from their families
- To ensure that offenders are rehabilitated ✓
- To reduce prison riots and attacks against guards
- To encourage a positive media response to sentencing
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- Complete this sentence: In Norway the use of a prison sentence is seen as a last ...
- 'resort' ✓
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Key learning points
- Different countries use different sentencing guidelines, some are rehabilitation focused others are retribution focused.
- Scotland uses a different legal system to England and Wales and therefore has different sentencing guidelines.
- Custodial sentencing exists everywhere but can look very different, e.g. Norweigan prisons are theraputic and home-like.
- Youth justice is different depending on the country and how they view culpability for this age.
Common misconception
All countries sentence in the same way as each other.
Although sentencing within a country follows sentencing guidelines, these can vary vastly between each other, e.g. the USA is able to pass the death penalty in some states.
Keywords
Sentencing - the process of giving a punishment to a person found guilty in a court case
Rehabilitation - in this context, the process of returning to, or helping someone return to, a healthy or good way of life, after they have offended
Retribution - a response to criminal behavior that focuses on holding offenders accountable through punishment
Reoffending - when someone commits another crime after previously being convicted or punished for one
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