AHSS 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dangerous Offender, Day Parole, Community Sentence
31 Jul 2018
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Chapter 11 - offenders supervised in the community: alternative sanctions and. Understand the extent to which probation is used as an alternative sanction. Differentiate between probation and the conditional sentence of imprisonment. Differentiate between alternative sanctions and conditional release programs. Understand the different types of conditional release programs, and their recidivism rates. Understand why problem-solving courts were created and their main features. Understand how problem-solving courts are a type of alternative sanction. Introduction: federal correctional system has jurisdiction over: Offenders sentenced to 2 years or more. Offenders on conditional release: provincial and territorial correctional systems has jurisdiction over: Offenders sentenced to 2 years less a day (or less) Majority of those convicted serve sentence in community: 77% in 2010-11. Intermediate punishment includes intensive supervision probation, home confinement and electronic monitoring, and day fines. Probation and conditional sentences are forms of community-based sanctions.
