SOSC 2652 Lecture Notes - Restorative Justice, Anger Management, Incapacitation (Penology)
31 Jan 2013
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How we approach and understand sentencing has a lot to do with what we think of the criminal justice system. Whether we think or it as a funnel or net. Over incarceration in canada and the prison punishment nexus: Sentencing is an area that has the least support in popular opinion. Most canada believes sentences are too linent, this underestimates the severity of sentences that are handed down by the canadian court. Over reliance on prisons are punishment speaks to prison punishment nexus what means there is a taken for granted thinking the prison are the primary sanctions for first resort. Nexus is incredible resilient, people have questioned the high cost of prisons and the ineffectiveness of prisons. Yet we continue to have this connection. When we think of punishment we think of prisons. Canada remains top five nations for incarceration. Canada really isn"t very linent, when it comes to incarceration.
