CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Midnight Basketball, Suspended Sentence, Conditional Sentence

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 131
• Professor: Simon Fraser

Document Summary

Sentencing(option, factors: alternatives to confinement(brief overview, corrections, release & re-entry, wrap-up and review -final prep. -providing sample for other people, get punishment what u did, Suspended sentence: discharges (absolute and conditional, probation, conditional sentence. Imprisonment intermittent: may include: restitution & community service order, options: consecutive and concurrent (concurrent is most common) Alternatives to confinement: majority of offenders sentenced to community supervision, high costs of incarceration- correctional officers, prison as a deterrent, questionable, targeted resources -> form a gang. Available alternatives: diversion -diverting people from traditional system(police, correction, court, concern: net widening, required to accept responsibility, probation (step up from diversion program, most widely used, approx. Intermediate sanctions (fall in between diversion and probation) Intensive supervision probation (isp: conditional sentence orders (cso, restorative & community justice initiatives. Corrections in canada -pickton case (pick women in dtes to port coq -> hop on to other jurisdiction)