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The role of the criminal courts in Scotland
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Role of the court:
Punish
The judge decides how someone should be
punished
for the crime
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Role of the court:
Determine guilt
The court will hear all the
arguments
and
evidence
to decide if someone has committed a crime
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Role of the court: Provide justice
The courts have a responsibility to make sure the right person is
convicted
and
victims
know justice has been served
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Power of the court:
Fines
The courts have the power to charge someone money to pay for the
damages
their crime has cost the
community
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Power of the court:
Sentences
The courts have the power to send people to
prison
for their crime, taking away their
freedoms
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Imprison
people
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Reoffending
rates are
high
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Some
guilty
people get
away
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Purpose of
prison
:
Protect
Society
must be protected from violent and persistent offenders by locking them away
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Purpose of prison: Punish
To make the offender
suffer
and
pay
for what they have done
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Purpose of prison:
Rehabilitate
Prisons should be aimed at changing the
character
of the criminal so they keep within the law in
future
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Purpose of prison:
Deter
People are aware of the
punishments
that can happen if they commit a crime and therefore are
less
likely to do so
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Purposes of prison sentences in Scotland
Protect
Punish
Rehabilitate
Deter
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