PSYCH230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Victim Blaming
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Alternatives to imprisonment: suspended sentence/probation, fines, suspension of privilege, community service order. Imprisonment: provincial courts (sentence less than 2 years) A) community center b) open center c) secure center: federal corrections. A) minimum security b) medium security c) maximum security. Decision maker values and goals: what are the goals of the punishment, not so much the consequences itself, but why is that particular consequence chosen. Retribution (eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth) Denunciation (sending a message of what we value as a society) Deterrence (messaging goal to the audience, the audience is not the general, society, the target audience is people who are will potentially act in criminal ways) Incapacitation (to remove a threat, by restricting their movements, imprisonment) Offender characteristics: capacity to control behavior. Psychiatric problems, depression, addiction, ability to understand wrongfulness: offender age (young or old, prior convictions, acceptance of responsibility.
