Dealing with offenders

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Dealing with offenders

• This is about the way that courts in Britain deal
  with people who are found guilty of an offence.

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SentencingOutline below the 7 main sentences
that are available

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What is meant by the penal system?

• Explain what the following mean.
• Punish
• Reform
• Deter

4
Newspapers

• Using the newspapers in the classroom look for
  offences and the punishments that are given by
  the courts.
• Find between about 5 and 10.

5
Prisons

• Identify the eight points about prison life that
  you need to learn.
• Name the different types of prisons.
• Explain why prisoners have to go through a form
  of secondary socialisation in order to cope with
  prison life.
• How do you measure if prison is successful?

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The death penalty

• Outline the reasons why people want the death
  penalty to be restored.
• Outline the arguments against the death penalty.