The Criminal Justice Process
1. Legislative Phase --
2. Crime Scene phase --
3. Pretrial phase --
4. Trial Phase --
5. Sentencing hearing --
6. Sentence served --
Models of corrections: punishment, colonial, reform, medical, and educational
Model combination:
The three goals of corrections: Punish, Rehabilitate, Incapacitate (Warehouse)
Weakness of Punishment
The intended outcome of Punishment -- Retribution, Deterrence, Incapacitation (Disable)
Punishment and Rehabilitation:
The cycle of futility:
minority group members feel like they are oppressed
Societies response
Harsher punishments
means of control
rinse and repeat
Punishment from the offender’s perspective
Goal of Punishment vs Goal of Rehabilitation in providing for Offender’s Needs
Determinate and Indeterminate sentences:
Sentencing Shifts