PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Meta-Analysis, Substance Abuse
3 Aug 2016
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Imposition of a legal sanction one persons convicted of an offence. Denunciation: message to society - act is wrong, not accepted by society. Specific deterrence: deter specific individual from reoffending. General deterrence: prevent criminal behaviour by the rest of society, not just sending out a message that act is not right. Shows community what will happen if this behaviour is repeated. Incapacitation: preventing criminal behaviour from individual by removing them from society, purpose of ensuring public safety, incompatible with rehabilitation. Monday march 16, 2015: increase the chance that individual is going to be member of society when sentence is over. Promote responsibility: sense of responsibility responsible for criminal actions. Fundamental principle of sentencing: sentence must be proportionate to the gravity of the offence. Sentence must be proportionate to the responsibility of the offender: ex. Sentence should not deprive the offender of liberty if at all possible. Primary goal: protecting the public: aggravating factors, mitigating factors.
