The Environment

• The Environment

  • The term 'environment' refers to the offender's home environment following their release
  • Can impact on their likelihood of reoffending
  • If offenders return to the same social circle involving drug talking/reoffending, then they are more likely to be reoffend
  • A lack of housing, employment, finance and education also makes it reoffending more likely
• Crime committed by those with moral imperatives

  • A moral imperative is a strongly held principle that compels a person to act, even if this involves breaking the law
  • The person breaks the law because they think this is the morally right thing to do in the circumstances
  • Robin Hood
• (R v Owen) - D's son had been killed by a careless driver who has been sent to prison for 12 months

  • Link to functionalism - All societies have crime and you cannot stop every crime possible
  • (R v Kronlid and others) and (R v Bezanek)