imprisionment

• aims of custody - retribution - punishment - incapacitation - denunciation - detterance
• issues with imprisionment - mental health issues - instiutionalisation - reinforces criminal behaviour - labelling
• mental health issues - more susceptable to problems with depression and more likely to attempt suicide
• institutionalisation - being kept in prision strips prisioners of their autonomy
• reinforces criminal behaviour - socialised into more crime
• labelling - hard to rejoin society which leads to more deal
• pros imprisionment - refrom - rehab - aims fufilled - psychological help
• prevention - eliminate consequences of prision and labelling
• recidivism - rates of people reoffending after their conviction
• factors influencing recidivism - length of sentence - supervision after release - disciplinary reports - education level - seriousness of crime - ethnicity - individual experience in prision
• psychological effects of custody - stress and depression - institutionaliation - prisionisation