CRIM 343 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mandatory Sentencing, Crime Prevention, Logistic Regression
14 Dec 2017
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Due to antisocial prison experiences or stigma experienced upon release. Incapacitation: crime prevention resulting from physical isolation of offenders. General: response to threat of punishment in population at large. Specific: response to the punishment of the punished. Rate of incarceration in canada relatively stable. Rate of incarceration 110 per 100k is high comparatively speaking. Us highest rate of incarceration in the world. Increasing number of people (counts) in custody. Imprisonment and reoffending nagin, cullen, & jonson. Imprisonment may affect reoffending in various ways: Compared to noncustodial sanctions, incarceration appears to have a null/mild criminogenic effect on future criminal behaviour. Imprisonment intended to prevent crime by incapacitation and deterrence. Regardless of location, accurate scientific knowledge about effects of imprisonment is crucial to an informed policy discussion of crime control. Early 70s, us experienced relative stability in imprisonment. Prisoner insurgency in 1971 at attica correctional facility protests had merit)
