Drawing on Sim’s article (2016) on prisons’ budget cuts during austerity, critically discuss the following quote: “The current [prison] crisis has been relentlessly tied to the budget cuts. While the cuts have intensified the crisis, they are not its cause”.
Unit:Punishment in society. (Criminology)
The point of the essay is to unpick whether prisons are inherently a ‘crisis’ issue by their very nature, or if austerity has created the crisis – or both!
Starting point investigation. Neo-liberalism theory. Impact of police crime sentencing; Courts bill (example Prisons numbers).
Prisons conditions were not good before austerity, but after they are more worse – agree or disagree with that statement. Focus on 4-5 main arguments in essay.
Critically discuss the following quote: “The current [prison] crisis has been relentlessly tied to the budget cuts. While the cuts have intensified the crisis, they are not its cause”.
