CRI210H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Peon, Victim Impact Statement, Conrad Black
17 Dec 2016
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Sentencing issues and the structure of canadian corrections. The faster removal of foreign criminals act to amend the immigration and foreign. Does not distinguish between conditional and carceral sentences-even though conditional sentences are often longer than would be given to someone sent to custody. Shifts the focus from more serious crimes (indictable offences) to petty summary convictions. Removes due process; eliminates the opportunity for appeal previously you could appeal deportation on humanitarian grounds that your children were living in canada. Passed its third reading in february 2013 and will probably be ratified given the conservative majority. Limits opportunity to discover aggravataed and circumstances. Those who came to canada even as young children can now be deported without appeal if convicged of a relatively minor offences(e. g. recording in a movie theatre) Emotional stress: worring about the person, whether their safe, loneliness and grieving process caused by deportation and children left back in canada. Intensifies the collateral damage associated with criminal punishment.
