CRIM 2652 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Sexual Assault, Incident Response Team, Shoplifting
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Penology is the study of the disposition of criminal offenders: sentencing policies and practices. Needs to treat the word community with caution cause there is not a lot community support and politicans are not in support of community support. Judge/crown/defence should be able to handle each case according to prevailing cultural norms. Priso(cid:374)s as a s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ol of (cid:858)justi(cid:272)e(cid:859) in modern society. Prison is the most effective way of dealing with crime as public see that there is no minimum sentence they belief that the justice system is to lenient. The goals of sentencing: case of mr. and mrs. jones: sentencing goals in criminal courts fall into 3 main groups, utilitarian / retrebutive / restorative. Incapacition: keeping offenders in prison to protect society: collective all thefts in prison for 5 years, selective incapacitiation: some offenders would commit a high rate of crime (small amount of offenders for most of the crime.
