SOC346H5 Chapter Notes -Common Assault
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Sentencing connotes a process for determining an appropriate sanction after a finding of criminal responsibility. Punishment and sentencing are conceptually distinct, although punishment has been the most common element of sentencing throughout history. Punishment is a social institution, and is determined by the cultural patterns of the day. An intentional infliction of pain or burden, punishment involves some form of suffering and is inherently coercive and intrusive. Charge: involves each individual offence laid against someone. Case: a body or a person, even if there"s four charges, it"s one body therefore one case because it"s the same person committing many offences during that one big event. Five offences represent half of the courts case load: impaired driving 11, theft 10, common assault 9, failure to comply with a court order 9, breach of probation 8% Probation: involves putting into a probationary period, and then you are released to a community where you have to comply with certain conditions.
