L3a changes in prisons

Starter: Why do we punish?

• Study the main aims of punishment above.

• Which of these aims apply to prison? Explain your answer.

 In your opinion, what should prison aim to do?

 Key words: Incarceration / Probation / Community service

How has punishment changed since 1900? - Prisons

LO’s: • To identify and describe the main changes in prisons since c.1900 • To assess the validity of prisons in the 21st century

How has punishment changed since 1900? - Prisons • At the end of the 19th century, prisons were run on the deterrent principle: ‘hard labour, hard force, hard board’.

• How did the pendulum swing in the 20th and 21st centuries?  Your task: using the information

provided, draw 3 pendulums to show the aims of prisons in: 1900-1948, 19481990, 1990-today.  Below each pendulum, support your choice with reasons/evidence.  Can you find any evidence of influence from the five factors in the changing aims of prisons?

Reform Prisons should reform the criminal so that they will not offend again

Deterrent Prisons should punish severely so anyone will be deterred from offending

Pit stop: how have prisons changed since 1900?

Watch the clip which is part of a documentary taking a look at life in prisons in the 21st century. ď € Note down: 1. Facts about the current prison system 2. Reasons that the current prison system does work (in reforming/deterring criminals or protecting society) 3. Reasons that the current prison system does not work (in reforming/deterring criminals or protecting society)

Plenary:  Discussion “You cannot train men for freedom in conditions of captivity”

How far do you agree with Prison Commissioner Sir Alexander Paterson’s statement (1921)?

Key Vocab Quiz 1.Name one new technological development in policing in the 20th century.

2.Name one change to policing in the 20th century.

3.Give one continuity from 19th century to modern day policing.

4.Give one ‘new crime’ of the 20th century.

5.Give one crime which increased since the 1990s.

6.Give one crime which declined since the 1990s.

7.In which decade was there a ‘crime wave’?

8.Give the name of the 1895 report which moved prisons away from the Silent System.

9.Name one thing that the 1948 Criminal Justice Act did in prisons.

10.In what year was Community Service introduced?

Peer Assess: Key Vocab Quiz 1.

Fingerprinting/radios/CCTV/ cars & motorbikes/computers/ DNA evidence/ 999 calls

2.

Increase in no./more powers/ women/technology/ specialist groups

3.

Neighbourhood Watch = watchmen

4.

Terrorism/race/traffic/computer/smuggling/cowardice/domestic violence/conscientious objection/anti-social behaviour.

5.

Drug offences

6.

Theft / violence / vandalism

7.

1960s

8.

The Gladstone Report

9.

Abolished flogging, more work/education opportunities, more visits from families

10. 1972

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