PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Meta-Analysis, Substance Abuse

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Monday March 16, 2015

Sentencing

Learning Objectives

Goals (purposes) of sentencing

Principles of sentencing

Sentencing options

The death penalty

Sentencing disparity

Attitudes towards sentencing

Sentencing

Imposition of a legal sanction one persons convicted of an offence

Judge decides the sentence

Accomplish a certain goal or purpose

Purposes of Sentencing

Denunciation

oMessage to society - act is wrong

oNot accepted by society

Specific deterrence

oDeter specific individual from reoffending

General deterrence

oPrevent criminal behaviour by the rest of society

oNot just sending out a message that act is not right

Shows community what will happen if this behaviour is repeated

Incapacitation

oPreventing criminal behaviour from individual by removing them from society

oPurpose of ensuring public safety

oIncompatible with rehabilitation

Rehabilitation

oProgram for offenders

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Monday March 16, 2015

oIncrease the chance that individual is going to be member of society when sentence is

over

Productive member – less likely to reoffend

Reparation

oCorrect imbalance

Fine = most common sentence in Canada

Promote responsibility

oSense of responsibility – responsible for criminal actions

Internalize guilt to change individual

Principles of Sentencing

Fundamental principle of sentencing: Sentence must be proportionate to the gravity of the

offence

Sentence must be proportionate to the responsibility of the offender

oEx. Role in crime

Age of offender

Sentence should not deprive the offender of liberty if at all possible

Primary goal: protecting the public

oAggravating factors

oMitigating factors

Sentencing Options

Absolute discharge

oLeast severe

oDischarging/releasing offender back into community with no sentences attached

oFound guilty of crime, appears on criminal record for limited time

Conditional discharge

oFound guilty, discharged back into community, must abide by conditions set out by

judge (appears on criminal record for limited time)