Open AccessPrivate Family Visits in Canada, Between Rehabilitation and Stricter Control: Portrait of a System
Author(s) -
Marion Vacheret
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
champ pénal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1777-5272
DOI - 10.4000/champpenal.2322
Subject(s) - imprisonment , prison , punishment (psychology) , portrait , control (management) , administration (probate law) , rehabilitation , social control , criminology , dimension (graph theory) , psychology , sociology , psychiatry , social psychology , political science , law , history , management , economics , mathematics , neuroscience , pure mathematics , art history
The question of maintaining social and family ties in spite of imprisonment is an important one, which Canada has attempted to address by introducing programs for family visits in which participants are alone and given intimacy for a three-day period. Although this corresponds to a philosophy of humane punishment focused on the offender’s reinstatement in the community, there is no denying another dimension, the additional control over inmates that these measures give to the prison administration