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Sentencing
In this chapter, the student should be able to:
- Understand the circumstances that judges have to consider when sentencing an offender.
- Understand that achieving the goals of public safety and holding offenders accountable is a difficult undertaking.
- Know the reasons why sentences differ inter-provincially.
- Identify the extra -legal factors that affect sentencing.
- Explain why penal populism runs rampant in North America.
- Explain why getting tough on crime and criminals is ineffective criminal justice practice.
- Differentiate between available sentencing options.
- State the principles of sentencing.
- State the challenges of Aboriginal Sentencing.
- Understand why individualized justice is necessary.