Sociology 2253A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Young Offender, Aea, Solitary Confinement
1 Feb 2017
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Incarceration is the most obvious way to protect society. Correctional systems and components of criminal justice system primary mandate: protection of society. Community correction strategies: alternatives to custody (e. g. , diversion and probation, programs for offenders released from correctional institutions, we can still supervise/control/monitor offenders. Diversion programs: offenders can be diverted from cj process at several points: pre-charge, post-charge, and post-sentencing, objective. Keep offenders from being processed further into formal cj process: most require offender to accept responsibility for offending and agree to fulfill certain conditions within a specific time. If conditions met, the charges are dropped: typically for low-risk first time offenders, concerns over diversion program. Potential, unanticipated consequence of diversion in which persons who would otherwise have been release outright by police or not charged by crown counsel are involved in the justice system. Young offender stopped by police, make him do a drug treatment program but as to accept what he has done.
