SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Restorative Justice
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People in jail are in the process of some kind of release. The whole point of a diversion program is to divert people away from prison/ cjs. Programs that re designed to keep offenders from being processed further into the formal justice system. Mental health, cso, donation, apology letter, offence - based program, aboriginal o o. If you shop lifted - do a shop lifting program. Youth: warning, community program, police - based diversion, youth justice committee, rj o. The more you keep youth put of the system, the better off for the future. 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 o o. The more options you have, the wider the net gets. Catching people up in a system that they normally would not have been caught in. Coercion: offenders surrender basic procedural rights to access programs.
