SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Corporate Crime, Environmental Crime

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Lecture 22- the future of criminal justice in canada. Restorative justice: principles, questions, and relationship with traditional justice system. Two approaches: victim-offender mediation, circle sentencing. Restorative justice approaches may be introduced at any point in the process. Involves collaboration and consensual decision making by community residents, the victim, the offender, and justice system personnel to resolve conflicts and sanction offenders. Developed in the yukon and premised on traditional indigenous healing practices. Process used to arrive at sentence is more important than the sentence itself. Addressing harms that were committed, figuring out how to right the wrongs, make the community whole again, instead of simply punishing offender. Judge or justice of the peace is not higher than anyone else in the room, they are all sitting in chairs at the same level. Does(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to (cid:271)e a judge, but there may be a judge. Focus on the process, giving everyone a voice.