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Week 10 Assignment 2- Alternatives to Incarceration

Analysis of alternative sentencing options and their effectiveness in the justice system.

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    1 Week 10 Assignment 2 - Alternatives to Incarceration Week 10 Assignment 2 - Alternatives to Incarceration Prison as a Last Resort Week 10 Assignment 2 Name: Date: Critically analyze the policy of "prison as a last resort" in Australia, discussing its historical context, pros and cons, and its impact on both youth and adult offenders. Evaluate whether alternatives to incarceration effectively address criminal behavior and reduce recidivism. Support your analysis with relevant theories and examples. Word Count Requirement: 2,000 – 2,500 words.

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    2 Week 10 Assignment 2 - Alternatives to Incarceration To detain a person you are depriving them of their personal liberty (Findlay et al, 2000). The detention or imprisonment of offenders has been a result utilized for an assortment of offenses in the public eye for many years. Lately it has turned out to be such an every now and again depended upon outcome that huge congestion in detainment facilities has come about (Findlay et al, 2000). In the 1990's new usage of restoration were acquainted with help facilitate the congestion in penitentiaries. As of now, jail was used to the degree that the Queensland government embraced a system of "jail as a last resort"(Cavadino & Dignan 2006). There are numerous upsides and downsides in utilizing this method. This article will consider both the upsides and downsides of this strategy and in this manner consider the ramifications of the arrangement for youth and grown - up wrongdoers in Australia. It will investigate the accentuation regardless of whether the utiliza tion of detainment or imprisonment is the best strategy. Besides, the paper will consider the historical backdrop of detainment as far as the wrongdoing rate and whether "jail if all else fails" has altogether affected on these rates. Historically, previous fines and punishments would be chosen by the tribal pioneer or lord who could endorse outcast to the wrongdoer (Allen & Simonsen, 1992). The most widely recognized type of discipline throughout the hundreds of years has been capital punishment or death penalty . As of late the type of detainment has developed. The term detainment is the point at which somebody is held without wanting to, in the past times it was likewise until there discipline had been chosen. In the nineteenth century and start of the twentieth century saw the development of detainment facilities (Allen & Simonsen, 1998). The principle point of confinement or detainment for a grown - up guilty party is for addressing and to increase additional data to be utilized as a part of the occasion of a trial. Confinement for an adolescent is utilized when the guilty party is under 18 years and can't be attempted as a grown - up . The

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    3 Week 10 Assignment 2 - Alternatives to Incarceration difference between juvenile and adult justice system is that the juvenile system caters for the juveniles needs, it looks beyond the crime that they have committed and looks more at what has brought him/her here as an individual (McCord, Wisdom , Crowell, 2001). Detention centers are like jails in that they deny a man of their own freedom (Findlay, Odgers & Yeo, 2000). Similarly as with detainment of grown - ups, this is proposed to be an obstacle however it is additionally utilized as a boulevard to restore wrongdoers. Recovery is encouraged by the offering of courses, to help the wrongdoer /offenders address his/her conduct which society has named as "wrong" or improper (Peterson, 1989; Shaffer, 1993). Along these lines, a con of the methodology may be that the guil ty parties are not able to get to course that could help them in restoration. Another motivation behind the detainment place for youngsters may be to stun them through the utilization of a military structure and to attempt and urge them that they have done wrong (Munice, Hughes & McLaughlin 2002). To bolster the arrangement there are distinctive sorts of choices that can be utilized rather than jail these can incorporate training camps, electric checking, concentrated supervision probation, day focuses, occ asional detainment and harsher choices incorporate the accompanying group administration, group based request and fine choice (White & Perrone 2005). Boot camps are a short period of incarceration with the hope of presenting the offender with a strong message and would be followed up by intensive supervision. The supervision can involve the offender submitting urinalysis test and attending certain courses within the community and failing to comply with this can result incarceration (White & Perrone 2005). E lectric monitoring involves the offender to wearing either an ankle or arm band that is electronically monitored from a base and will set off an alarm if they breach conditions. Day centers are where the offenders attend certain course to help with their offending behavior. Periodic detention is when they are housed in custody then released this

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