SOC209H5 Lecture : Introduction - Myth or Reality?
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Canada has a much smaller number of people locked up in prisons than in the us because. Canada abolished the death penalty in 1976 evidence, according to many observers, of a commitment to the concepts of justice and rehabilitation. Canada has been successful in the last decade in its attempts to lower the incarceration rate among aboriginal canadians, such that today there is little in the way of disproportional representation in canadian prisons across race, ethnicity and gender. Canada is considered a world-leader by some in terms of gender-specific and ethnicity-specific punishment, as well as in terms of rehabilitating (treating) offenders. Canadian law and social norms insure there could never be a guantanamo bay style prison (that is, indefinite detention without warrant and sometimes without judicial review) Griffiths: all of the agencies, organizations, and personnel involved in the prevention of and response to crime and dealing with persons charged with criminal offence, and persons convicted of crimes (3)
