Crime and Prison

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Crime and Prison

• Grade 12 Sociology

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How deviant are you?

• 20 questions
• Answer each one with
• 1 very often
• 2 several times
• 3 once or twice
• 4 never
• Add up you score at the end

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Your Score???

• 25 or less quite deviant
• 26 or morewell not as deviant. Deviance
  decreases as the scores get higher

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Crime

• Crime is an act that violates criminal law and
  is punishable with fines, jail terms, and other
  sanctions
• Juvenile delinquency refers to a violation of
  the law by young people under the age of 18

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Types of Crime

• Street Crime
• Violent
• Moral
• property
• Occupational and Corporate Crime
• White collar crime
• Organized Crime

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Purpose of Prisons

• The main purpose of prisons are
• Intended to cause hardship as a form of
  punishment
• A way to remove dangerous individuals from
  society
• Seen as a deterrent to discourage criminals and
  would-be criminals from breaking the law
• To rehabilitate the offender through training and
  counselling

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Do Prisons Achieve these goals?

• Crime rates? Repeat Offenders?

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Repeat Offenders

• Recidivism Commission of a new offence after
  being convicted of a similar offence.

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• Repeat Offenders video
• Comments?

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Alternatives to Prison

• Temporary Absences
• Day Parole
• Full Parole
• Statutory Release
• Fines

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The Suicide of Ashley Smith

• http//www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2010/
  01/07/ashley-smith-fifth-estate.html
• What should have been done for Ashley Smith?

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A Different Focus

• Restorative Justice
• Victim offender mediation
• Family group conferencing
• Sentencing circles
• Consensus-based sentencing
• Victim-offender reconciliation panels

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The state of Canadas Prisons

• Where does the Ombudsman Howard Sapers stand?
• TorontoStar video http//www.youtube.com/watch?v
  2Xh_PpJCMpM
• A prisoners perspective
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?v8yXO4wh46vMfeature
  channel