PSYC 379 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Mandatory Sentencing

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 379
• Professor: Sarah Mordell

Document Summary

Reading 1: rehabilitating criminal justice policy and practice (andrews, d. a. Canada is considered a country in which rehabilitation is formally part of sentencing and correctional policy. Presently, canada is moving towards a punitive form of justice. A majority of prisons are overcrowded, prison conditions are deteriorating, inmates are being released from prison to old neighborhoods, which further impact local economies and state corrections budgets. The authors assess the potential of get tough and rehabilitative approaches to crime prevention regarding criminal justice. The authors suggest that crime prevention that ignore, dismiss, or unaware of the psychology of human behavior are likely to underperform in regards to successful crime prevention. The rise of getting tough and the decline of rehabilitation. The get tough approach to criminal justice began to replace rehabilitation as an underlying ideal of sentencing and corrections in the 1970s.