Chapter 9-textbook Flashcards
Total individuals placed on probation (2016-2017)
99, 902
Probation sentence length
52%-6 months-1 year
37%-1 year +
10%-less than 1 year
Charged with breach of probation
1/3 (31, 337 ppl)
Total guilty-breach of probation guilty
1-4 (24,507 ppl)
Breach of probation outcomes
57%-Custody
21%-Probation
17%-Fines
6%-others
Canada Rehabilitation vs. US
US officers are employed by the local (municipal) government, therefore wanting to come across as “touch on crime”. The saying for them is: “Tail’em, nail’em, and jail’em”. Offenders are afraid of probation officers, and don’t form a connection and relationship to them.
Risk-Need-Responsibility model
Risk: Match the level of intervention to the risk level of the cases. working with moderate or high risk offenders and leaving alone low-risk
Need: Treat the unmet needs associated with criminal thinking and behaviour
Responsively: Adopt correctional treatment to account for the individuals strengths, motivations, preferences, personality, age , gender, ethnicity
Warehousing
When inmates receive their basic needs, with few or no rehabilitative opportunities
Remanded vs. Sentenced STATS
More people are sentenced to remand(custody) and less than that is actually sentenced to jail
Albert Inmate in a women’s correction issue (in Alberta) and other example in Ottowa-Carleton Detention Centre
Women was pregnant, she had to wait over a month for an ultrasound where she found out her fetis had died and had to wait several more days before taken to the hospital to get the tissue removed. Another women sued the carleton Detention Centre because has gave birth to her baby on the floor of her segregation cell.
New Generation Design (also know as the podular design)
Cells are arranged on the perimeter of the living unit and the prisoners eat and recreate in the common area
Ombudsman
An appointed official who investigates complaints made against organizations operated by provincial or territorial governments
