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Lecture 8 Flashcards

1
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Sentencing

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Judicial determination of a legal sanction upon a person convicted of an offence

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2
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3 types of Canadian courts

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  • Provincial
  • Federal
  • Military
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3
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Aboriginal overrepresentation

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  • Refers to disproportionate number of aboriginals involved in the criminal justice system
  • 3% Canadian population but 18% of adults admitted into remand
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Aboriginal courts

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  • Established for special consideration could be given to background factors of aboriginal offenders
  • One goal to reduce aboriginal overrepresentation
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Goals of sentencing

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  • Specific deterrence (already offenders)
  • General deterrence (potential offenders)
  • Denounce unlawful conduct
  • Separate offenders from society
  • Assist in rehabilitating offenders
  • Provide reparations for harm done
  • Promote responsibility in offenders
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6
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Principles in sentencing

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  • Sentence must be proportionate to gravity of offence
  • Sentence must be proportionate to responsibility of offender
  • Sentence should not deprive offender of liberty if at all possible
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7
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Judges must

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  • Consider aggravating and mitigating factors
  • Use comparable sentences for similar offenders commiting similar crimes
  • Use alternatives to incarcerate if at all possible
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8
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Sentencing options

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  • Absolute discharge
  • Reparation
  • Fines
  • Community service
  • Conditional sentences
  • Imprisonment
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9
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Are sentencing options effective?

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Research shows that punishment based sentences does not reduce the probability of reoffending

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10
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Effect of punishment

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  • Community based sanctions resulted in increased recidivism rates
  • Incarceration resulted in increased recidivism rates
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11
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Death penalty

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  • Canada eliminated DP in 1976, 1998 for military offences

- 38 states permit the DP

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12
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Arguments against the death penalty

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  • Does not act as deterrent
  • Expensive
  • Biased
  • Handed down to the innocent
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13
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Sentencing disparity

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Variation in sentencing patterns due to the influence of factors that are not leagally relevant to the case

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14
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Unwarrented sentencing disparity

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  • Results from reliance on extra-legal factors
  • Systemic factors (how lenient judges believe sentence should be)
  • Unsystemic factors (mood of judge on particular day)
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15
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Studying sentencing disparity

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  • Simulation studies
  • Official sentencing statistics
  • Both methods clearly shows that sentencing disparity exists
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16
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Reducing sentencing disparity

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Use sentencing guidelines

17
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Are the goals of sentencing achieved

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  • Ongoing debate about deterrence and rehabilitation
  • Research does not support the effectiveness of get tough strategies to reduce crime
  • Correctional interventions that are based on core correctional principles show more promise
18
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Public’s attitude towards sentencing

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  • Generally feel that offenders are treated more leniently
  • Generally doesn’t have a lot of conifidence in our criminal justice system
  • Generally support a range of alternative sentencing practices
19
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Principles of effective correctional intervention

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  • Risk principle
  • Need principle
  • Responsivity principle
20
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Risk principle of effective correctional intervention

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  • Criminal risk can be predicted

- Higher levels of service should be provided to higher risk cases

21
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Need principle of effective correctional intervention

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  • Should target criminogenic needs

- Not non-criminogenic needs

22
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Responsovity principle of effective correctional intervetion

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  • Delivering treatment programs in a style and mode that is matched to the ability and learning style of the offender
  • Match service to general responsivity and specific responsivity
23
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Parole involves

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  • Conditional release into community
  • Rehabilitation
  • High degree of community supervision
  • Return to prison if conditions not met
24
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Types of parole

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  • Temporary absence
  • Day parole
  • Full parole
  • Statutory release
25
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Conditions of parole

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  • Regular reporting to parole officer
  • Abstain from drugs and alcohol
  • Remain in Canada
  • Obey law and keep peace
  • Do not own or possess weapon
26
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Parole decision making

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  • Eligible for parole after first third of sentence or 7 years
  • Formal hearing between offender and parole board
  • Formal risk assessment
27
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Risk assessment

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  • Statistical measures of risk to reoffend
  • Criminal history
  • Psychological and psychiatric reports
  • Performance on earlier releases
  • Information from victims
  • Instituational behaviour
  • Feasibility of release plans
28
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Effectiveness of parole

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  • Less likely to breach conditions
  • Higher success rates
  • Statutory release unlikely to commit further crimes

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