Unit 4 2.2

• The criminal justice act 2008 section 42 says that the aims of sentencing are:

  • punishment of wrongdoers
  • reduction of crime through deterrence
  • reforming offenders
  • protecting the public
  • making reparations by offenders to those affected by their crimes
• which act demonstrated the aims of punishment 


  The criminal justice act 2012 section 42
• Extreme forms of public protection:

  • execution
  • banishment (in the 19th century, many convicts were sent to Australia)
  • physically cutting off hands (Saudi Arabia today)
  • chemical castration - sex offenders (some states of america)
• less extreme forms of public protection:

  • Curfews
  • electronic tagging
  • driving/travel bans e.g.: football hooligans
• how does prison act as public protection?

  takes offenders away from society
• what is the UK’s biggest form of public protection?

  prisons
• give an example where the crime sentences act 1997 has been implemented

  a minimum of 7 years for a 3rd conviction of class A drug trafficking
• crime sentences act 1997: introduced standard sentences for specific offences