SOCI 3410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Restorative Justice, Crime Prevention, Meta-Analysis
2 Aug 2016
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Selective incapacitation model: incarcerate chronic offenders, past behaviour predicts future behaviour. Rehabilitation model: crime is caused by outside factors, assess individual before sanction is made, discretionary powers are good, less costly. Do we have resources available for it to be successful. Only works on people who wouldn"t have committed crime in the first place. Things should go back to how they were before the crime occurred. Less when it is the community who is the victim. Offender needs to take responsibility for his acts. Meta analysis studies indicate that some treatment programs work for some type of offenders. Ineffective juvenile programmes: punishment, scared straight, boot camps, large facilities, long term confinement, curfew laws, out of home placements, general deterrence. Boot camps and out of home placements don"t work because once the youth goes back home, all the social factors which pushed him to commit crime will return in that environment.
