Investigating the Effectiveness of the British Penal System

Investigating the Effectiveness of the British Penal System

The Penal System: is the set of laws, and procedures that follow a

conviction to a person, these are punishments including sentencing,

community service and tagging.

The British penal system is a system used in our country, which keeps

crime and violence under control. It is a system, which has been set

up for many years to try and help prevent crimes, to have justice and

set victims free. Crime covers the range of controversy. For example

rape, murder, paedophilia, GBH and there are many more types of crime.

All of the horrific topics I just mentioned are crimes, each

unforgivable in its own right, who does have the right to do any of

the crimes above? In the bible it said “all men are equal” but are we?

Surely no human being delusional or sick enough, to cause evil

pandemonium within society. Sadly the world today does contain evil

and disturbed people who commit ‘crimes’ and this is what the British

penal system is used for. Not only does it handle the drastic crimes

above but also handles crimes such as drugs and drink driving and any

other ‘minor case’.

Although we have a system, which deals with all types of crime is it

enough?? Do people and victims get their justice? Are victims free of

torture and trauma? I think that our system is good but there is still

room for improvements. Our contradictory and controversial society

needs safer and more determined rules to get the complete justice it

deserves.

There are a number of types of crimes however there are a couple of

crimes, which particularly stand out. The first one is called ‘White

Collar Crime’. W...

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We are an evolutionary not revolutionary society and if crime is

brought down even more then we can defiantly concentrate on other

issues and not worry about crime. Crime is always going to be present

in any society but if using other methods controls it more, such as

capital punishment then, people can certainly feel at ease and will be

less critical. So although the penal system is slightly effective I

feel there can be major improvements to stop crime happening so often.

On the next page there are two extracts out of newspapers showing

relative issues to this coursework.

Bibliography

Internet sites- www.google.com & www.yahoo.com

‘Is the British penal system effective?’

Books- “The book about crime”

“How is Britain affected by crime?”

Newspapers- South Wales Argus & the Sun