CRIM 241 Chapter Notes -Probation Officer, Drug Court, Suspended Sentence

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 241
• Professor: Danielle Murdoch

Document Summary

Part 2 corrections in the community: alternatives to confinement. Diversion, probation, intermediate sanctions, restorative justice initiatives. Alterative measures driven by escalating cost of confining offenders in correctional institutions & question effectiveness of incarceration as a deterrent. Inconclusive, few evaluation, may widen net when focus on low risk/first time offender, may increase system s workload and costs. Can be effective if principles of rnr are follwoed. High eates of violations (40%), despite limitations by billc-10, still used inappropriately by judges; more effective than imprisonment in reducing recidivism. Yes evidence show can reduce rates of recidivism and address needs of. Programs designed to keep (mostly low-risk, first time offenders) offenders from being processed further into the formal cjs: objective: kept from being processed further into cjs thereby reducing cost and social stigmatization. Can be diverted at several points, pre charge post charge post sentence stages.