Abolition of Prisons and Crime Prevention in Australia

ACR102 Introducing Crime
and Criminal Justice

TABLE OF CONTENTS
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Question 2....................................................................................................................................3
Question 3....................................................................................................................................4
Question 5....................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

MAIN BODY
Question 2
“Abolition of prisons” in Australia is considered to be the movement that refuses the
utilization of the incarceration regarding the form that has social control over community
maintenance. This is the penal abolitionists challenge that the current use of policing, courts to
control population as means of solving the social problems. In Australia defunding of the police,
and the prison abolition has been dismantling the system which has created and continued the
ongoing oppression about violence, discrimination and mistreatment of the aboriginal and Torres
narrow inhabitant group. The reason why in Australia more than 10 million people are
imprisoned in prisons all over the world. According to this the productivity commission research
paper prisoners in Australia has increased by 40% since the beginning of the century (Farrington,
Cohn and Iratzoqui, 2019). As per the data from Australian Bureau of statistic data is four times
greater than the national average.
Imprisonment is a form of penalty that is widely known to be normal in the society.
However, it was discovered that prisons is are invented only two centuries ago. The feudal era
punishment was not use of retention cells but before the bodily or capital penalty was
communicated. The major reason for abolition of prison in Australia where due to the state's
aboriginal incarceration was very high. It was found that 40% of the prisoners where the
aboriginal people although they were only the 4% of the total population of Australia. In the
truth it was found that opportunities required for making supply chain of the capitalist state's
criminal justice system. It was found that the improvement schedule is driven by the capitalist
that stated stressful for both to reduction of spending and to provide profit making chance.
It was found that the prison abolishment will not be achieved by bit-by-bit reforms that
reordering prisoners from the prisons community detainment. There have been studies that the
GPS change ankle bracelets, facial acknowledgement software and other police investigation
implement may well replace prison cell enclosure and prison screw as the state's preferable
performing of social power. Prisons shouldn't be used with or without the non-expectation of
reduction in criminal behaviour. Due to the excessive use of incarceration has an enormous cost
implications. For the determination of the affected by the prison is considered to be upon
officials to instrumentality repeat, across-the-board assessments of violate attitude values and