SOC209H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Shampoo, Prison Officer
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Guest speakers jacqueline tasca and sunny dhillon. Access to things/services are limited: being held on remand can be very disruptive of lifestyle. Prisoner on prisoner violence and prisoner on correctional officer violence. Increased overall hostility towards justice system: money is more often directed to correctional officers rather than programs such as recreation or rehabilitation, overcrossing jails puts more stress on correctional officers. Corrective: prisoners don"t know when they"ll be released back into community therefore no planning for it. Costs of incarceration: provincial incarceration costs in ontario (2013/14, /day for adult, /day for youth, community alternatives, range from 5 per day. Alternatives: community corrections, purpose of community corrections, divert criminals from cjs and incarceration, provide temporary relief from incarceration, to reduce length of incarceration. Three categories: diverson: no custody community sentencing, ex. Diversion, probation, fine, community service order, house arrest, electronic monitoring: objective: divert criminals entirely from cjs and incarceration, custodial pre-release strategies, ex.
