SOCI 2450 Lecture 10: Lecture 10.docx
23 Apr 2012
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When looking at the landscape there is a huge number of people suffering from mental health issues, addictions, fetal alcoholic syndromes. Community care to allow young people to live a reasonable life. Conditional sentencing part of canada"s balance approach to violent offenders, community alternatives to something else. Judge must be convinced that public safety will not be threatened if given conditional sentence. Conditional sentences are longer than custodial sentencing. Cost for the loss of cso will be 135 million 8 million at federal level. Smart justice network new group following concerns of c10. Formed 8 months ago by small number of people across the country who have a lot of experience in the cjs in canada. More people in prison, longer sentencing, hard to get out. Prison sentence as a safety within our communities. Reasons why prison is not the right solution for safety. Prison is necessary in confining people in some settings.
