SOC205H5 Lecture 10: Soc205 Lecture 10
Document Summary
Part of transition to crime control but with a focus on rehabilitation: we are witnessing an emergence and entrenchment of probabilistic reasoning in criminal justice decision making, which is largely discrediting clinical prediction, actuarial or quasi actuarial tools make statistical predictions about the criminality of groups or group traits to determine criminal justice outcomes for particular individuals within those groups, strong focus on crime control and also rehabilitation in canada. It allows for standardization, consistency and transparency (curtail discretion: in consistency that offenders are not being trade fairly, the idea is that everyone is assessed in the same criteria, they are more transparent and see what is being evaluated, accountability and defensibility, if you are a police officer and let out a risk offender in the community and how did you assess this individual and he can state that they used this tool, protects institutions and probation officers, less responsibility and criminal justice system can defend the decisions they make.
