SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Restorative Justice, Labeling Theory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Graham Brown

Document Summary

Corrections: structure, policies, and programs delivered by government, non- profits, and public to: sanction, punish, treat, supervise. Community corrections: sanctioning, puishing, treating, supervising outside of formal correctional institutions i. e. jails, prisons. Three categories of community corrections: programs for those released from correctional facilities i. e. parole. Programs that are designed to keep offenders from being processed further into the formal justice system. Net widening: potential, unanticipated consequence of diversion in which persons who would otherwise have been released outright by police or not charged by crown counsel are involved in the justice system. Coercion: offenders surrender basic procedural rights to access programs. A sentence imposed that provides for the supervision of the offender in the community by a probation officer, either as an alternative to custody or in conjunction with a period of incarceration. Imposed by a judge a type of sentence. Available only for provincial or federal who"s sentence = 2 years.