CRIM 3656 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Electronic Tagging, Sentenced, Lawbreakers
Document Summary
The prison punishment nexus is taken for granted and be changed and disrupted. There is space for thinking about other ways of punishing: social distance and willingness to punish: this points to the effects of the social and physical distance of those who are punishing and those who are punished. Involves increasing that distance resulting in willingness to punish more harshly. Today"s class: principle of restraint in the development of canadian criminal justice policy, the scope of the contemporary prison-punishment nexus in canada, reasons for the resilience of the prison-punishment nexus: the need to limit imprisonment. We now know quite conclusively that the commission was correct. Though necessary in some cases, imprisonment has limited usefulness. Emphasizes the dangers of imprisonment, the negative effects, and the need to exercise restraint in imprisonment. In 1990, kim campbell was the minister of she also signed a report on sentencing directions for reforms .
