CRIM 316 Lecture 10: lect10.docx

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 316
• Professor: Eric Beauregard

Document Summary

How do we respond to those who offend: punitive vs restorative. Obstacles in working with sexual offenders: anger in society over harm, offenders often end up in the bottom strata of society, belief that they cannot be cured. Cosa locally: fraser valley cosa began in 2005, vancouver was added to our area in april 2010. It is a joint project of catholic charities justice services and m2/w2 association- Restorative church ministries: geographically we cover the area from hope to vancouver, a spread of over 150km, we relate to multiple police, probation and parole offices. Local cosa: from 2005 to present we have had over 80 core members, none of our cms have reoffended with a sexual offense while being a part of circle, since 2008 we have. Cosa values: no one is disposable, no one does this alone, community safety, no more victims (top value) Hardest problem to deal with (many people struggled with sexual problem)