CRIM 3656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Desmond Tutu, Restorative Justice, Victimology
22 Apr 2017
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Sustains itself despite governmental and non-governmental criticisms levelled at the system. These are initiatives and directions that seek to decrease the reliance on prisons as a sanction of first resort and try to develop alternatives of the traditional adversarial system of the cjs. The unsettling of this nexus is apparent in restorative justice. There is always a question as to what extent community-based sanctions actually represent a true and real alternative sanction to imprisonment and to what extent they widen the net. With the emergence of community-based sanctions, the very same people are imprisoned, yet these programs are not being employed as an alternative to imprisonment, but rather targeting different kinds of people who are subjected to community-based sanctions. Results in a return to the criminal justice system. In that way, it doesn"t represent a true alternative to imprisonment, but rather brings more people into the cjs.
