Corrections in Canada

• NCJ Number: 178029
• Author(s): Colin Goff
• Date Published: 1999
• Length: 224 pages
• Sale Source: Anderson Publishing Co
• Publication Format: Book (Softbound)
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This book presents an overview of the Federal corrections system in Canada.

Abstract

Chapters cover the following areas, with selected sub-topics: (1) Crime and Corrections in Contemporary Canada (costs of incarceration, demographic profile of the typical inmate, changing policy toward imprisonment); (2) Correctional Ideologies (incapacitation, rehabilitation, reintegration, deterrence); (3) The History of the Penitentiary and Correctional Ideologies in Canada; (4) Conditional Release Programs: Parole, Temporary Absences and Statutory Release; (5) Probation (profile of probationers’ age, race and gender; does probation work?); (6) Women and Corrections (programs and services, risks and needs, Federally sentenced women and their children). Each chapter contains a summary and discussion questions. The book also considers the future of corrections in Canada, including private prisons and technology. Figures, notes, tables, references, glossary, indexes