LAWS 3305 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Dangerous Offender, National Defence Act, Parole Board Of Canada
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Re: the declining use of bodily punishments, and the creation of long prison terms, in the 20th c . *some state officials and opinion leaders actually wanted to ensure that society could use imprisonment less, or at least wanted to prevent the penal system from becoming too punitive. **canadians increasingly shied away from using physical violence; and this preference proved more powerful than their desire not to get carried away with imprisonment. Positivist reformers" beef with the determinate sentences of classical criminal justice: too much imprisonment if convicts reformed, too little imprisonment if they had a dangerous streak. Indeterminate sentencing: imprisoning without a set end date; calling off imprisonment at the point when the inmate had rejected crime (*never took off too much in canada, only after wwii for habitual offenders and sexual psychopaths) Britain prevention of crime act (1908) preventive detention of some habitual convicts.
