CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hybrid Offence, Ankle Monitor, Reverse Onus
30 May 2016
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Letting them serve their sentence in community is cost effective. Majority of offenders sentenced to community supervision (people who won"t pose a risk to communities) murder guy will be incarcerated, won"t serve sentence in to community. High costs of incarceration (it"s paying people to supervise them, paying for educational means, hygiene, food) You learn more skills in prison because you"re being around criminals, don"t have social life outside for prison, can"t get job) (prison is actually making more offenders! Especially for first time offenders, don"t have large criminal network because they aren"t really skilled and then being put into prison where there are other criminals will give you tips on how to be a better offender) Targeted resources (good chunk of money goes to corrections because it"s expensive to house people. If we focus on community sanctions, were able to minimise those resources and build programs to help people and it"s about using resources effectively.
