CRI210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Refugee Act, Extenuating Circumstances, Restorative Justice

• School: UTSG
• Department: Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
• Course: CRI210H1
• Professor: Scot Wortley

Document Summary

The objectives of punishment and sentencing issues in canada. Utilitarian objectives: specific deterrence, general deterrence, restitution, rehabilitation, reintegration, rule definition. Justice - just deserts: vengeance/retribution, redemption, fear reduction. Hidden (extra-legal) objectives: political gain, economics - profit, power/control of dangerous classes, maintenance of the status quo. entertainment. 1: community corrections (probation/parole), death penalty, corporal punishment -- mutilation, fines and property confiscation, banishment (deportation), forced labour, public humiliation, community service, restorative justice, restrict rights and opportunities; Factors that determine a criminal sentence: the criminal code (i. e. , judicial discretion limited by the minimum and maximum sentencing standards established by the law), aggravating circumstances, mitigating circumstances; Intermittent sentences: fines, restitution/community service, probation/parole, restorative justice, absolute and conditional discharges, conditional sentence. Canadian sentencing 2014-15: average sentence of incarceration: 30 days, average length of probation: 365 days, average fine: . 00. Sentencing issues in canada: sentencing disparities, sentencing guidelines, mandatory minimums, diversion programs, the death penalty;