CRIM 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Penitentiary Act, Retributive Justice, Restorative Justice
27 Apr 2018
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Crim 241: Lecture 1
Chapter 1
The Early Days
- Punishment by imprisonment was rare
- Ecclesiastical prisons run by the Catholic Church
Perspectives on Crime
- Classical (Conservative) School
- Positivist (Liberal) School
- Critical (Radical) School
Comparing Perspectives (Textbook)
Restorative Justice (RJ) (Textbook chart)
Short essay could be: comparison retributive justice and RJ principles
- Look at chart in textbook
Chapter 2
The Creation of the Canadian penitentiary
- Kingston penitentiary (Ontario) 1835
o Symbolizes a moral architecture
- Why was it built?
o Us influences, overcrowding in local jails and the view that corporal punishment
was improper and degrading
- The Brown Commission.
The Early 9’s
- 1906 Penitentiary Act:
o separated young and mentally disordered offenders from the general population
o changed: powers and duties of federal penitentiary inspectors.
- Philosophy of corrections: unchanged
o Punitive practices continued with reformation through hard labour and discipline
Correctional Inquiries:
- Purpose: to examine correctional policy and practice
- Impact on federal corrections: mixed
- Minimal changes in structure and operations: brown commission (1848)
- Significant changes in correctional policy: creating choices (1990)
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