CRIM 2652 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Innocence Project, Medical Model
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Next week looking at what happens at the end of the funnel - prisons and restorative. Then prisoners rights - then current issues (guest speaker on innocence project, guest speaker on corrections and parole: over-incarceration in canada, the sentencing process, rationales of punishment. Imprison more people than most western democracies (1987: canada"s incarceration rate is high relative to most western european countries (5th in the world, colonialism can be a factor. 1996 reforms introduced that imprisonment should be the last resort: prisons taken for granted as the sanction of rst resort, they"re extremely costly and can be counter productive. Public tends to think that we are too lenient with our courts. Ie: sentencing of larry nassar (january 24th, 2018: judge opened the courtroom to all of the victims (80 victim impact statements) The judicial determination of a legal sanction to be imposed on a person found guilty of an o ence - canadian sentencing commission, 1987.
