SOC205H5 Lecture 9: SOC205 Lecture 9
Document Summary
Risk and sentencing: risk assessment (cid:498)the spinal column of the correctional system(cid:499) (cid:523)williamson (cid:884)(cid:882)(cid:882)(cid:882): (cid:884)(cid:524) (cid:498)we have begun to visualize (cid:494)just(cid:495) punishment through the lends of actuarial probability(cid:499) (cid:523)(arcourt. 2007:21) presentence report: designed to give a profile of the offender so the judge can use to make an assessment whether they will be put on probation or not, etc. Risk assessments are used to: inform arrest and bail decisions select diversion candidates divert offenders out of the cjs structure and inform police, correctional, parole, probation and custom officers(cid:495) decision-making allocate correctional resources structure pre-sentence reports. Level of service inventory- created in canada by psychologist at u of ottawa put canada on the map for cjs reform- used all across the world, us and uk translated in in 13 different languages. *many jurisdictions have unique tools but they all use a common actuarial logic and statistical method.
