CRM 4302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Mandatory Sentencing, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Consumerism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 4302
• Professor: Vajmeh Tabibi

Document Summary

In 2005, total of 1821 state and correctional facilities and 415 private facilities: 33 prisons, 38 camps, 16 community correctional facility. 944/100,000: 1/14 black males was locked up. In 1989: black males aged 20-29 under some form of penal control: black boys born in 1991 have a 29% of going to prison compare to 16% for hispanic and. 4% for white males: 2,267/100,00 under control of penal law system in the us (6. 2 million us citizen of which 5. 2 million are males, meaning that 3923 males/100,000. Prison population is not an indicator of crime/ crimes decreased by 20% but the prison pop increased. Ch(cid:396)istie looks at (cid:858)high (cid:396)ate(cid:396)s(cid:859) a(cid:374)d (cid:858)lo(cid:449) (cid:396)ate(cid:396)s(cid:859) The low rater: norway time frame: 1814-1996 increased imprisonment rate from 1814 to 1843 (from 550 to 2325). Usa: social and political climate of 1970s: what happened to the usa, 1970: reform, ma(cid:396)ti(cid:374)so(cid:374) (cid:862)(cid:374)othi(cid:374)g (cid:449)o(cid:396)ks(cid:863, failure of the rehabilitation model, call for a reduction in the use of prison.