SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Law Abiding Citizen, Anger Management, 6 Years
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Imprisonment: objective of sentencing- incapacitation/ incarcerating- locking up in an institution. Challenges with the use of incarceration: sentencing long term tends to happen to old age offenders, or with long history of offenders- age crime curve climbs during the teenage years and peaks early. 20"s and during 30"s crime rate declines consistently. But it is actually that most plp commits an offence at some point in their life. Study: less incarceration: changes in incarcerated rates- some areas more and some, they looked at index crime definition of that crime is constant, study employed usual factors age, sex, and education, what offence. Study: looked at crime act done by plp released from prison. 30 of them went on to commit serious offence in which 3 were in prison because they committed a serious offence before. All of those in prison are those who are more likely to commit crime- high risk. We"re able to link the offender to appropriate programs.
