SOC209H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter Chapter 10: Suspended Sentence, Conditional Sentence
Document Summary
Diversion: programs that are designed to keep offenders from processed further into the formal criminal justice system. Offenders can be diverted from the criminal process at several points: pre-charge, post-charge, post-sentencing. Objective to keep offenders from being processed further into the formal criminal justice system and reduce costs and social stigmatization and assisting offender in certain specific factors related to their offending. Most programs (diversion) require that offender acknowledge responsibility for their behavior and agree to fulfil certain condition within a specific time. Intermediate sanctions- wide range of correctional programs that generally fall between probation and incarceration: although initiatives may include either of these penalties as well. - aka alternative sanctions/ community sanctions. Home detention with or without electronic monitoring, As part of a conditional discharge (mandatory) As a condition of a suspended sentence (mandatory) As a sentence on its own (most common) Following a prison term of two years or less.
