CRIM 3654 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Angela Davis, Moral Authority, Signify
20 Jan 2016
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Diagram of international incarceration rates 2012 ---< united states at the top has the highest incarceration rate canada"s was 117/ 100 000 people who were incarcerated. Canada incarceration rate has been rising even since the first jail. Furthermore the increasing rates of prisons also has to do with the emphasize on the concept of individuals under which its argued that crime is the result of ind. Responsibility and rejects that crime expresses general social conditions the countries with high rate incarceration has chosen to use prisons as. So canadians don"t have more criminals then greece or italy who incarcerated 109/100 000 however its just the methods and the policy"s that are made to deal with individuals who do commit crime primary mechanism for social control. Has fallen to its lowest level of the past 5 years because prisons are expensive and hard to afford an attempt to reduce cost. Criticism of imprisonment or prisoners too expensive they don"t work.
