Purposes of Sanctions

types of sanctions

Rehabilitation

• strategy designed to reform an offender to prevent them from committing offence sin the future

• treats underlying causes of offending in hopes they stop

• better achieved by community based custodial sanctions

Punishment

• strat designed to penalise offender &show community what will not be tolerated

Detterence

General

• process to discourage the offender & others in the community from committing similar offences

• by other in the community

Specific

• process to discourage the offender & others in the community from committing similar offences

• by the accussed

• 40% reoffend within 2 years

Denunciation

• process that the court demonstrate community’s disapproval of the offenders actions

• registers disapproval of the court, informs teh community that actions wont be tolerated

Protection

• designed to safeguard community from the offender in order to prevent them from further offence

• best achieved by custodial sentence