SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Paul Bernardo, Correctional Service Of Canada, Anger Management
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Culture shock and prison adjustment (how well they fit in, are they violent, escape risk, violent. Needs of the individual and rest of the community, fewer female offenders so their all in the same place. Therapy and treatment you get in jail, and other types of programing. Life skills, education, recreation, counselling: offence specific. Stoplift program for shop lifters , sex offender programs: offender specific. Offender specific: substance abuse programs help people deal with their leisure time. We want them to be better upon release, you get social supports, they can still be part of the challenges their faced with. Educational programs: basic literacy, academic and personal improvement. More likely to get a job and not re-offend if they participate. Parenting skills training program: men and women with babies. Full parole: fully released, partnered with probation officers. Day parole: community activities in day prison= evening. Paul bernardo is being forced to apply for parole.