Community are governed by an individual or individuals that enforced the society to conform to particular guild lines. The guild lines subject the public to a standard thought. In most instances the view that being pressured to comply are statically emplaced to win political advantage. To the public that are unaware of the trickery used against them for political gain, they view this tactics as step to fast resolutions to social problems (Hartnagel, 2006). These problem range between drugs use to violent offences. Penal populism which is the process of which politician’s pursuit a set of “tough on crime” policies to win votes instead of promoting alternative measures of solutions(Cook & Roesch, 2012). Alternative measures are facilities such
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Many of the older generation fear the young generation and feel the need for harsher punishment because they feel that society has become to “soft” on them (Doob & Webster, 2006). In most instances the younger generation does not vote, but the older generation are consistent to vote therefore when politician are doing their campaign they focus on the needs for the elderly. That emphasizes on elderly fears of younger generations behavior is used to the extreme to gain votes. Bill C-10 is an example of policies that were emplaced by the Steven harper party to be used as a general deterrence on offender to stop offending or re-offending. Bill C-10 proposes to expand mandatory minimum sentencing, which includes minor offences (Cook & Roesch, 2012). The concept is that individuals fear the consequence of going to prison because it is assumed to be the most fear environment. In that view the longer the prison sentence is the more likely society will be avoid from committing the crime (Doob & Webster, 2006). General deterrence theory explains that the individual will be deter from committing the crime due to the idea that they can be sentence to a mandatory sentence in prison. Problems will bill C-10 is it ignores child poverty, does not provide with the needs of individuals that suffer mental illness, rehab individuals back into society or divert younger offenders from adult …show more content…
The idea of general deterrence sounds profitable in theory but it is practically flawed. There is no 100 percent guaranty that general deterrence works. In most occasions it does deter some individuals but not all. With mandatory sentencing individual that should be placed in rehab to fix their addiction problem and caused them to commit their crime in the first place, are not getting the chance but are just being placed in jail (Hartnagel, 2006). Therefore the issue of them commit the crime is not being targeted to avoid
Many of the older generation fear the young generation and feel the need for harsher punishment because they feel that society has become to “soft” on them (Doob & Webster, 2006). In most instances the younger generation does not vote, but the older generation are consistent to vote therefore when politician are doing their campaign they focus on the needs for the elderly. That emphasizes on elderly fears of younger generations behavior is used to the extreme to gain votes. Bill C-10 is an example of policies that were emplaced by the Steven harper party to be used as a general deterrence on offender to stop offending or re-offending. Bill C-10 proposes to expand mandatory minimum sentencing, which includes minor offences (Cook & Roesch, 2012). The concept is that individuals fear the consequence of going to prison because it is assumed to be the most fear environment. In that view the longer the prison sentence is the more likely society will be avoid from committing the crime (Doob & Webster, 2006). General deterrence theory explains that the individual will be deter from committing the crime due to the idea that they can be sentence to a mandatory sentence in prison. Problems will bill C-10 is it ignores child poverty, does not provide with the needs of individuals that suffer mental illness, rehab individuals back into society or divert younger offenders from adult …show more content…
The idea of general deterrence sounds profitable in theory but it is practically flawed. There is no 100 percent guaranty that general deterrence works. In most occasions it does deter some individuals but not all. With mandatory sentencing individual that should be placed in rehab to fix their addiction problem and caused them to commit their crime in the first place, are not getting the chance but are just being placed in jail (Hartnagel, 2006). Therefore the issue of them commit the crime is not being targeted to avoid