For many years throughout history, much debate and controversy has been sparked with respect to Canada’s correctional system and criminal justice system. Canada’s criminal justice system has thrived/strived to work as a consolidated unified entity aimed at reducing, maintaining, and preventing crime and criminal activity. However, great controversy remains as to whether or not Canada’s criminal justice system is effective. It can be argued, for example, that Canada’s system of criminal justice is aimed at striving to achieve and meet specified goals, entities, or principles. In terms of sentencing a criminal offender, for example, sentencing can either be based on the principles of crime control or due process. Crime control asserts that an offender must serve time in prison for committed crimes and that sentencing must be appropriate and justifiable in accordance to the criminal code and prospective rule of law. Under due process, an individual offender is presumed innocent and must be proven guilty and can exercise all proposed legal avenues and resources that are made available.
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However, not all criminal cases are overseen and processed in the criminal justice system in the same way, shape, or form as the criminal justice system is composed of different parts, stages, and agents each with varying differences, functions and goals. One important agent that has continually been examined in terms of roles, functions, and effectiveness is the police. This agent can be viewed as an important entity in crime prevention, deterrence, and maintenance of order of criminal offenders within correctional institutions. However, policing of criminal offenders within correctional institutions has posed various challenges for police and correctional officers. This paper will strive to examine some of the challenges associated with policing criminal offenders within correctional institutions with focus on instances of mental health disorder and gang violence drawing upon sociological and criminological theories. There are many different types of correctional institutions that can house alleged proposed criminal offenders. Some forms of correctional institutions include but are not limited to: youth institutions, correctional institutions for men and women, drugs, and mental health. However, in some cases it can be difficult to discern and distinguish which type of correctional institutions would be best suitable and appropriate for a proposed criminal offender. Also, correctional institutions can be ranked or classified on different levels depending on the type of crime and environment of a specified correctional institutional facility. Correctional institutions can be ranked, determined, and classified based on different levels of risk such as for example, low, medium, and high risk. The level of security proposed and determined by each will vary according to the type of facility and type of offenders. The housing and incarceration of inmates in various correctional institutions and facilities has sparked much debate and controversy. There has been much debate surrounding how offenders within these facilities are policed and also whether or not needs and challenges of different offenders and correctional institutions are being met. Various sources and forms of inequality has proposed and accounted for challenges within correctional institutions. Some challenges in which correctional police officers have grappled with amongst incarcerated prison members include but not limited to: drug use and abuse, prison gang violence, overpopulation due to prison overcrowding, race, class, gender, socio-economic status, rise and instances of mental health, and environmental location. In terms of determining, discerning, and striving to …show more content…
. It can be and is important to note and decipher that causes of criminality cannot always be attributed to one identifiable or attributed cause as causes of criminality is multifaceted. For example, in striving to determine why women offenders face the onset of imprisonment and incarceration, feminist criminological theory asserts that women turn to crime and criminality as a result of inequality dominated by patriarchy. It can be suggested that women are marginalized within society as a result of pending and ongoing patriarchy. Women bear different challenges in terms of criminality and incarceration. It can be argued that women are seen as being amongst a minority and are seen as inferior and members of the low social economic class and are subsequently disadvantaged.
The notion of disparity within the criminal justice system has posed threats for ongoing conflicts and inequality within the criminal justice system and also within correctional institutions. Disparity and inequality within these components can potentially serve as problematic. One significant aspect is
However, not all criminal cases are overseen and processed in the criminal justice system in the same way, shape, or form as the criminal justice system is composed of different parts, stages, and agents each with varying differences, functions and goals. One important agent that has continually been examined in terms of roles, functions, and effectiveness is the police. This agent can be viewed as an important entity in crime prevention, deterrence, and maintenance of order of criminal offenders within correctional institutions. However, policing of criminal offenders within correctional institutions has posed various challenges for police and correctional officers. This paper will strive to examine some of the challenges associated with policing criminal offenders within correctional institutions with focus on instances of mental health disorder and gang violence drawing upon sociological and criminological theories. There are many different types of correctional institutions that can house alleged proposed criminal offenders. Some forms of correctional institutions include but are not limited to: youth institutions, correctional institutions for men and women, drugs, and mental health. However, in some cases it can be difficult to discern and distinguish which type of correctional institutions would be best suitable and appropriate for a proposed criminal offender. Also, correctional institutions can be ranked or classified on different levels depending on the type of crime and environment of a specified correctional institutional facility. Correctional institutions can be ranked, determined, and classified based on different levels of risk such as for example, low, medium, and high risk. The level of security proposed and determined by each will vary according to the type of facility and type of offenders. The housing and incarceration of inmates in various correctional institutions and facilities has sparked much debate and controversy. There has been much debate surrounding how offenders within these facilities are policed and also whether or not needs and challenges of different offenders and correctional institutions are being met. Various sources and forms of inequality has proposed and accounted for challenges within correctional institutions. Some challenges in which correctional police officers have grappled with amongst incarcerated prison members include but not limited to: drug use and abuse, prison gang violence, overpopulation due to prison overcrowding, race, class, gender, socio-economic status, rise and instances of mental health, and environmental location. In terms of determining, discerning, and striving to …show more content…
. It can be and is important to note and decipher that causes of criminality cannot always be attributed to one identifiable or attributed cause as causes of criminality is multifaceted. For example, in striving to determine why women offenders face the onset of imprisonment and incarceration, feminist criminological theory asserts that women turn to crime and criminality as a result of inequality dominated by patriarchy. It can be suggested that women are marginalized within society as a result of pending and ongoing patriarchy. Women bear different challenges in terms of criminality and incarceration. It can be argued that women are seen as being amongst a minority and are seen as inferior and members of the low social economic class and are subsequently disadvantaged.
The notion of disparity within the criminal justice system has posed threats for ongoing conflicts and inequality within the criminal justice system and also within correctional institutions. Disparity and inequality within these components can potentially serve as problematic. One significant aspect is