CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Juvenile Court, Victim Surcharge, Conditional Sentence
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Crim 2652 lecture 13 - sentencing options, principles and guidelines. Prison to be used as a last resort. Canadas incarceration rate is high relative to most western european countries, it is 5th in rates of incarceration. The usa has the most, 698 per 100,000 population. Canadians do tend to think that our courts aren"t hard enough, apparently, we are too lenient. Sentencing is the most media friendly stage of the criminal justice system processes. Sentencing: the judicial determination of a legal sanction to be imposed on a person found guilty of an offence, judges and sentencing they rely on their own discretion when making decisions. Sentencing process: 3 main questions: in/out decision for the type of sanction type of sanction appropriate for the offence. Quantum of sanction, which is the length of the sentence, time money and pain: 2 phases: justifying punishment, identifying reasons for the punishment and what the judge will try to achieve in this punishment.
