CRM 306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Community Service, Suspended Sentence
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Theoretically" based upon what we as a society or community want to happen to this person. Sentencing is a bifurcated process": (a) the in/out decision (b) the quantum. Justifying the sanction (1) guidelines: canadian criminal code, corrections and conditional release act, charter, Parity in sentencing treating cases alike/uniformity (2) purposes & principles in the legislation (ccc, ycja) Last overhaul of sentencing provisions in criminal code happened in 1996. Fundamental principle 718. 1 a sentence must be proportionate to the gravity of the offence and the degree of responsibility of the offender. What do we mean by unsettling ? not a question of does punishment work" , rather what are the underlying assumptions of these goals? ( unpacking" or unsettling") Crime was a sin and the work of the devil. Age of enlightenment reform movement crime was the product of rational choice and free will led to the philosophy of deterrence through rational and utilitarian punishment during the.
