Offender Management: Theories, Approaches, and Strategies

OFFENDER
MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
Task 1 ..............................................................................................................................................3
Role of offender management .....................................................................................................4
Community sentence imposes by courts......................................................................................5
Role of Non-governmental organization (NGO's).......................................................................6
Measures of community offender management...........................................................................6
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Offender management can be defined as the managerial function which seeks to
accomplish the overarching goals of crime reduction, protection of public, punishment and
reform offender into good person. In simple word to manage various type of offenders in prison
on the basis of criminal justice system. Offender manager plays essential role to manage
offenders in both within prison system and within community. Manager has main function to
protect public and prevent re-offending by receiving punishment and commands from the court.
Additionally, manager supports offender to redeem their lives and resist future victims of crime.
This report covers theories of punishment and sentencing.
Task 1
Theories of punishment and sentencing
There are various theories of punishment which is used by judge to punish different type of
offenders. Theories are-
Deterrence: It is most popular theory which is designed to educate criminals. Even this
theory supports criminal to reform their lives by resist themselves to re-offend any type of crime.
The main goal of the theory to keep criminal away from crime and reform them into good
person. Deterrent theory is classified into parts specific deterrence and general deterrence. In
specific deterrence, punishment is organized in that way which educates criminal that whatever
they offend it was wrong. Additionally, it creates a fear among offender that punishment can be
repeated when they offend (Williams, and et.al., 2017). On the other hand, general deterrence is
designed to avoid future crime. It also creates fear in common citizen to not do what they did.
Retributive Theory : It is quite old theory for justification which is organized for giving
punishment. This theory forces that a person who have done wrong deed should deserve
punishment. This theory is fully based on some principles such as a person can't arrest unless
they don't break the law. There are some condition which express that a person considers as an
offender. For example when a person offend similar crime which have done before. When a
person perform a crime considers as the culprit.
Prevention theory: It is used to resist offender to repeat the criminal act by giving
punishment for death, imprisonment. The main goal of theory to keep safe public from criminals.
This theory is specially designed to those offenders who shows anti-social behaviour due to
psychological and biological handicap.