SOC209H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Suspended Sentence, Indictable Offence, Life Imprisonment

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Section 718 of the criminal code sets out the purpose and principles of sentencing: To deter the offenders and other persons from committing offences; To separate offenders from society, where necessary. To provide reparations for harm done to victims or to the community. To promote a sense of responsibility in offenders, and acknowledgment of the harm done to victims and to the community. Section 718. 1 states that a sentence has to be proportionate to the gravity of the offence and to the degree of responsibility of the offender. Section 718. 2 states that it has follow under certain principles pertaining to evidence. Utilitarian goal: the sentence is designed to protect the public from future crimes in the following ways: By discouraging potential predators from crime, general deterrence. By discouraging the predators from doing it again, specific deterrence. By curing the predators of what made them do it, rehabilitation. By keeping the predators in jail to protect society, incapacitation.

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