CRIM 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Conditional Sentence, The Corrections, Suspended Sentence
3 May 2016
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What: wide range of programs and services (not only prison treatment programs etc); Ways the police impact/change the correctional officers: they are the frontline first contact so that could determine how they are treated; by arresting more people change in legislation (change of focus e. g. focus on drugs) Corrections includes: federal, provincial/territorial custodies, probation, remand, conditional probation. Corrections: structures, policies and programs to punish, treat, and supervise persons convicted of criminal offences. Report to police (dark figure of crime only 50% of the crime is reported) (not necessarily end up incarcerated) Investigation (has to be recommended by the crown counsel) The correctional system starts at sentencing, that"s why the judges are considered a part of the correctional system. The canadian charter of rights and freedoms (1982) Applied to everyone in prison or not. Democratic: the right to vote (1995: declared unconstitutional for prisoners to vote,
