CRM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Government Spending, Sentenced, Legcuffs
18 Nov 2013
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Penology: sentencing policies and practices, correctional policies and practices. Punitive culture public and political: looking at prisons, alternatives to prison (community corrections, community corrections should be used with caution. Community not significantly involved and hostile towards community corrections: many government proposals/support for prison as solution for crim. Importance of numbers numericized talk: social costs. Government spending on criminal justice: . 3 billion in 2011/12. . 5 billion (feds); . 8 billion (provinces/territories: security (57%); corrections (23%); courts (20%) Csc expenditures: 2010/11 = . 4 billion (mostly for custodial services) Provincial expenditures: 2007/8 = . 64 billion, 2010/11 = . 93 billion (mostly for custodial services) Cost per offender per year (2010/11: prison - , 364. Gender: 95% of federal inmate population is male. Women make up: 5% of federal inmate population, 10% of provincial inmate population, 6% of remands (people waiting upon space in prisons) 21. 5% of adult male offender population is aboriginal. 34% of adult female offender population is aboriginal: over-representation of black offenders:
