CRJS 1003 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10 : Mandatory Sentencing, C86, Reprobation

• School: Mount Royal University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJS 1003
• Professor: Dawn Rault

Document Summary

Determination of legal sanction to be imposed on a person found guilty of an. Sentencing involves handing out punishment, argued that punishing criminals serves two purposes: order) Sentencing (cid:498)the judicial determination of a legal sanction to be imposed on a person found guilty of an offence(cid:499) Deposition (cid:498)the actual sanction imposed in sentencing(cid:499) or (cid:498)the judicial offence(cid:499) Chronic offenders commit the most heinous/greatest number (cid:498)three strikes(cid:499) system in usa. Doesn(cid:495)t include proportionality for specific types of criminal offences how will we know that punishing a robber for life (cid:498)the incapacitation and deterrence approaches both focus on punishing criminals for the express purpose of protecting society(cid:499) Both are called the (cid:498)get tough(cid:499) approach: rehabilitation: (cid:498)based on the belief that many offenders can be their communities(cid:499) Different from deterrence because favors much longer. Specific deterrence: targets individual offenders to stop them. General deterrence: sentence severe enough to stop people a long term in prison of criminal offences sentences.