Criminal Justice in Canada The Conservative Canadian Government and its "tough on crime" approach

The Conservative Government in Canada has emphasized its attitudes toward crimes by implementing a system that both deters and harshly punishes criminals in an attempt to make the country a safer place. Criminals such as child sex offenders are currently less likely to 'escape' with mild sentences and the authorities have generally been instructed to do everything in their power with the purpose to prevent serious crimes from taking place. This means that penalties have become more significant and the masses are encouraged to play a more active role in protecting the community.

The Conditional Sentencing Reform Bill is among the first principal "tough on crime" reforms that the Conservative Government has adopted since it came to power. "Proposed in 2006, the bill's objective was to restrict the availability of conditional releases (day and full parole and statutory release)." (Kery & Shea 121) The legislation was largely aimed at preventing criminals who had sentences of 10 or more years from having access to conditional release (Kery & Shea 121). Individuals responsible for crimes such as stealing a series of objects or amounts of money worth over $5,000 suddenly came to be refused parole and their condition was thus seriously aggravated.

The government did not stop at changing the conditions associated with parole, as it also began to address things like increasing the incarceration periods for certain offences. This meant that criminals who were responsible for performing particular crimes would be...

The move would mainly aim to deter potential criminals from going through with their plans as a consequence of considering the risks involved. Risks were largely a principal factor addressed in the series of reforms adopted during the Conservative Government's leadership -- through implementing laws that would have criminals risk a lot more when performing criminal acts, the government would be more likely to experience success in its effort to prevent crime in general. These respective laws were expected to reduce the number of criminal acts in Canada in general, taking into account that criminals would acknowledge the risks they would take when engaging in certain behaviors.
Question B.

Chapter 6 in Colin Geoff's book "Criminal Justice in Canada" addresses a series of problems associated with the Conservative Government's approach on crime in an attempt to have readers understand why and how this form of policing is ineffective. The chapter goes on to emphasize the series of problems that the authorities experienced as they struggled to use one of the most traditional methods in history. There are numerous reasons why this attempt was ineffective, with the most important being associated with criminals seeing little to no threat in these respective actions -- there were other motives behind crimes and individuals would not stop simply because penalties had become more severe.

What the Conservative Government failed to understand was that they first needed to address concepts that influenced individuals to become criminals in the first place.…