Sandy’s Background
Sandy is currently 17 years of age, which is around the average peak offending age for males within Scotland. Sandy has resided his whole life on the notoriously deprived council estate: Ferguslie Park, Paisley. This small area boarding Glasgow has been identified by The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (2016) as being the area with the greatest level of deprivation within Scotland, exceeding with soaring unemployment levels, low incomes, low levels of skills, education and health, which may be accountable factor within Sandy’s current behaviour. Present Circumstances/ Risk and Protection Factors
In order to understand fully, why an individual may commit crime, we must understand their history of individual learning …show more content…
The use of this retribution and ‘just deserts’ aspect will attempt to stop Sandy offending by implementing an individual deterrence, providing a shock to Sandy to restrain him from committing delinquent activities upon release. However, would be widely inappropriate in the case of Sandy, as the punishment would not fit the crime. Sandy would be place amongst other young males, who have committed a wide severity of different crimes whilst in the YOI. This would therefore act as a further learning platform for Sandy and through association, may provide him with techniques and ideas surrounding committing more crimes. Also through sentencing him to a custodial sentence he will be subject to stigmatization by society and further deviant labels will be applied to Sandy for serving time in the YOI, which may not deter but rather instigate delinquent acts (Becker, 1997). Ultimately, the cost of placing Sandy in a YOI also exceeds the cost of community sentences costing around £40,000 a year on average to keep a petty criminal in prison in comparison to around £2000 to administer a community sentence, therefore should be used as a last resort. In terms of success rates, community sentences have proven to be more effective than short custodial sentences in reducing future offending: (Mews, Hillier, McHugh, Coxon, 2015) offenders discharged from immediate custodial sentences of less …show more content…
Giving Sandy an unfair sentence such as imprisonment may lead Sandy to flout the law upon his release for unfair sentencing (Lily et al., 2014). Sherman’s theory of defiance takes into account that the role the state plays in an individual 's future offending patterns is shaped by how bonded that individual is to the community. Sandy may also be at a high risk of using displacement upon finishing either a custodial and community sentence. (Maguire, Morgan & Reiner, 2012) Sandy may stop offending using the elements he previously used instead he may change where he commits the crime, its location, timing or he might change the type of crime from vandalism to shoplifting. Therefore, in order to prevent him from reoffending, he would need to maintain a good relationship with the probation officer for a set period of time and be able to gain achievements in terms of education, involvement and employment to help reduce the risk of him returning to criminal
Sandy is currently 17 years of age, which is around the average peak offending age for males within Scotland. Sandy has resided his whole life on the notoriously deprived council estate: Ferguslie Park, Paisley. This small area boarding Glasgow has been identified by The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (2016) as being the area with the greatest level of deprivation within Scotland, exceeding with soaring unemployment levels, low incomes, low levels of skills, education and health, which may be accountable factor within Sandy’s current behaviour. Present Circumstances/ Risk and Protection Factors
In order to understand fully, why an individual may commit crime, we must understand their history of individual learning …show more content…
The use of this retribution and ‘just deserts’ aspect will attempt to stop Sandy offending by implementing an individual deterrence, providing a shock to Sandy to restrain him from committing delinquent activities upon release. However, would be widely inappropriate in the case of Sandy, as the punishment would not fit the crime. Sandy would be place amongst other young males, who have committed a wide severity of different crimes whilst in the YOI. This would therefore act as a further learning platform for Sandy and through association, may provide him with techniques and ideas surrounding committing more crimes. Also through sentencing him to a custodial sentence he will be subject to stigmatization by society and further deviant labels will be applied to Sandy for serving time in the YOI, which may not deter but rather instigate delinquent acts (Becker, 1997). Ultimately, the cost of placing Sandy in a YOI also exceeds the cost of community sentences costing around £40,000 a year on average to keep a petty criminal in prison in comparison to around £2000 to administer a community sentence, therefore should be used as a last resort. In terms of success rates, community sentences have proven to be more effective than short custodial sentences in reducing future offending: (Mews, Hillier, McHugh, Coxon, 2015) offenders discharged from immediate custodial sentences of less …show more content…
Giving Sandy an unfair sentence such as imprisonment may lead Sandy to flout the law upon his release for unfair sentencing (Lily et al., 2014). Sherman’s theory of defiance takes into account that the role the state plays in an individual 's future offending patterns is shaped by how bonded that individual is to the community. Sandy may also be at a high risk of using displacement upon finishing either a custodial and community sentence. (Maguire, Morgan & Reiner, 2012) Sandy may stop offending using the elements he previously used instead he may change where he commits the crime, its location, timing or he might change the type of crime from vandalism to shoplifting. Therefore, in order to prevent him from reoffending, he would need to maintain a good relationship with the probation officer for a set period of time and be able to gain achievements in terms of education, involvement and employment to help reduce the risk of him returning to criminal