SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Restorative Justice, Term Paper, Real Change
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Term paper: talk about restorative justice process, or alternative measures. What is the objective: sentencing structure- can see various diff things, at the legal element- court decisions, you see one way how sentencing is looked at. Another way to look at it is, how does sentencing look like to the general public. You have more context info but sentencing looks interesting in the newspaper: sentencing is more than just harsh or lenient; there are other descriptions in between, when things become mandatory, there is a concern about excessive rigidity. And if someone violates these condition, the public wants some sort of consequences / sanction of punishment for that: when speaking in generality, it does not provide accuracy in publics opinion. Soc219:lecture 5: judges talked about sentencing that everybody know. Sentencing is controversial in terms of what happens on the ground. If you have a panel of judges, given with same information, they would come up with same sentences-
