Electric monitoring
The focus of the criminal justice system in Canada and all around the world for hundreds of years has been retributive justice. One of the main ideas has been you do the crime, you do the time. Thus, all of our prisons were beginning to fill up and exceed their capacity. This was a result of basically everyone who was found guilty of committing an offence under the criminal code, was sentenced to time in jail or prison. Therefore, “during the 1980’s and early 1990’s, like many countries, Canada experienced significant prison population growth”(Bonta, Wallace-Capretta & Rooney, 1999: pg.4). This was due to the fact that our prisons were becoming greatly overpopulated and the cost to incarcerate an offender is quite expensive. As a result of this, governments around the world have been seeking ways that they can manage or reduce the prison populations. Hence, governments have been working at developing programs that would allow people who have been convicted of committing a criminal offence to serve their sentence outside of the jail walls. However, by doing this they still had to make sure that they were meeting the needs of the community by allowing them to feel safe and secure while these offenders were ser
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Some common words found in the essay are:
PROGRAM IMPROVED, Corrections Division, ELECTRONIC MONITORING, Herald June, Wallace-Capretta Rooney, Amsterdam United, electronic monitoring, Wallace Capretta, Jaw Region, British Columbia, JUSTICE SYTEM, probation officer, placed electronic, placed electronic monitoring, offender placed, probation officer/supervision, monitoring program, probation officer/supervision coordinator, electronic monitoring program, officer/supervision coordinator, offender electronic monitoring, offender electronic, 1995 pg, officer supervision, probation officer supervision,
Approximate Word count = 6008
Approximate Pages = 24 (250 words per page double spaced)
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