... and amount of the drug in possession. Deterrence is an act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety to stop a repetition or the crime. Penalties intentionally to have this effect are prison sentences, suspended prison sentences and heavy fines. It is broken up into two categories individual deterrence which tries to stop people from committing crimes again thought fear of punishment e.g. suspended sentences, while deterrence is aimed to stop others by making them an example of those who do offend. Rehabilitation is mainly to help and reform the offenders and their behaviour so they can be re introduced into society and not re-offends. It mainly works together with the community and their community punishments and rehabilitation commands, which mainly means the offenders sentence is quite minimal depending on the seriousness of the offence. This type of sentencing takes into consideration ...

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