CRIM 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Restorative Justice, Organized Crime, Saskatoon Freezing Deaths
11 Dec 2016
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Annual operating cost cjs - billion: mostly policing. Challenges to criminal justice, restorative justice, & victims of crime. Understand public perceptions of cj/factors influencing perceptions. Central focus: victim needs & offender responsibility: repairing harm. Potential solution: (cid:313) expenditures + development of problem solving capacity within cjs. Six main objectives: needs of victims, offender acknowledges responsibility, creates community of support, alternative of adversarial justice system, avoids escalation of legal justice, cost, delay, prevent reoffending through reintegration. Research shows: most effective serious violent crimes, crime victim satisfaction, reduced recidivism (reoffending) rates. Dangerousness is likelihood of reoffending: some jurisdictions. Reduced court costs & processing times (cid:498)justice(cid:499) in a multi-cultural society. Protection of rights of all citizens (charter: cultural, legal issues, accommodating practices of various religious groups. Justice does not always have the same definition to all groups: political i. e. criminating certain politics, freedom of religion e. g. rcmp to be allowed to wear turbans.
