ANTHONY RICE

Case Study

Case Study

Introduction

The following paper based on a given case study and the main lead of the case study is a criminal named as Anthony Rice, who was held by the police on a charge of a murder. The main theme of the case study based on the situation that the Rice when involved in the murder, he was already being supervised on a Life Licence by the Hampshire Probation Area. However, beside all the evidence found against him, yet he set free by the law enforcement agencies. Therefore, this paper discussed and highlights the flaws of the departments due to which a serious criminal was set free. Management and review cases of imprisonment in England and Wales

Discussion

Management of lifers in England and Wales gives rise to interesting challenges as witnessed in the Anthony Rice case. With the number of lifers is growing faster than the number of prisoners in general, processing and release of lifers are issues that are never far from the minds of the public. At the end of 1957, there were 122 lifers in British institutions-today, there are nearly 3000. In 1965, the abolition the death penalty, 78 people were sentenced to life imprisonment. However, in 1990, this figure had risen to 229. The number of lifers has almost doubled in the past 12 years, from 1376 to June 1978 to 2795 in 1990. We often hear that there are more lifers in England and Wales than in the rest of Europe combined.

While inmates serving determinate sentence must necessarily be released after a period of incarceration, this is not the case for lifers. Nevertheless the possibility of release of these detainees is prescribed by law and sentenced to management life is the social reintegration after a sufficient period of incarceration given the seriousness of the offense. The real problem to be solved by the Correctional Service UK is that it must help one hand lifers to prepare for release (Justice, 2012) and secondly, prepare evaluation reports that reflect the extent to which these are good candidates for release.

Legislative framework

In the modern United Kingdom and as per the Anthony Rice's case, the life imprisonment given to Rice actually consists of two types. Life imprisonment mandatory and discretionary life imprisonment, a murder conviction carries a sentence to life imprisonment. Life imprisonment is the maximum penalty to punish certain other serious crimes, such as manslaughter, robbery, criminal fire, rape and kidnapping, which were the actual charges faced by Rice previously. In such instances, the judge may, at its discretion, order the offender to life imprisonment.

The law applicable to the release of lifers has recently been amended to introduce a clear distinction between those sentenced to life imprisonment mandatory and discretionary. Under a new system of review and release those condemned to imprisonment discretionary life, a court-like body hear the case of sentenced to life imprisonment at the facility discretionary after a period of "discipline" for a fixed period has been served by the ...