SOC220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Personality Disorder, Solitary Confinement, Anger Management
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What people hope you can help with is different than when you can help them. Assessment of those would benefit from hospital rather jail. About 140,000 adult offenders in canada"s correctional system. These people don"t exist (except in nwt and manitoba; 74% and 62% violent) Housed in jails and reformatories: most adults in custody are young men, aboriginals overrepresented across all provinces and territories, statistics are notoriously hard to interpret. Correctional systems: provincial/territorial, federal, jails tend to get clients fresh of the streets . Jails and detention centers in ontario: point of entry into institutional system; maximum security, developed culture to protect staff and inmates, primary goal of jails in containment. Officer asked to wait outside because of confidentiality. Correctional treatment centres ontario: provide more specialized and intensive treatment for motivated offenders with clearly identified problems; major mental illness, substance abuse, sexual misconduct, impulse control and anger management.
