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Justice committee  Yes, I think that's a crucial thing to do. If, to some extent, the overrepresentation of certain groups is being informed by bias, subliminal or objective bias, when you give discretion within the system, you may well see more rather than less of that happening. I think it needs

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  When you are working with people who have been on a criminal path and you can get them off a criminal path and toward a more prosocial, contributing lifestyle, you are preventing victimization. There are a lot of people who, if they've been successfully rehabilitated and are bein

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  It is a significant concern. I know that when you have community-based conditional sentences, you are hoping that the community has the resources to be able to support them. Many dysfunctional communities—“under-resourced” communities is probably a better way to describe them—wil

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  There used to be a lot more conditional sentences before they were repealed, so John Howard's role has changed, because there has been a real drawing back of conditional sentences. We work with people who are in conflict with the law in order to try to help them get on the right

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  It can be very difficult. A lot of the males, for example, who are placed in custody tend to be contributing to the household and the income of the household. When they're removed from that role, their families tend to slide into poverty and survival mode, which is very challengi

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  It's devastating, I would say. People are not protected from discrimination on the basis of historical criminal offences until they get a pardon or a record suspension, and even then people can check things out on Google. If they have a pardon, which is not all that easy to come

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  I haven't heard of the last one being evaluated, but I will tell you that it tends to be the fear of getting caught that has the effect of deterring crime. If they're likely to get caught, they don't want any part of it. It isn't the severity of the penalties. For a lot of the pr

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  I think it is a thousand times better, if they are not a threat to public safety, to keep them in the community with a conditional sentence, which is a custodial penalty; so as soon as they violate one of the conditions, public safety is protected because of how quickly they can

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  I think the challenge with mandatory minimum sentences, particularly for indigenous and Black people, and others, is that if there are provisions like the Gladue provisions that allow you to look at the historical and social determinants that have led the person to be in a circum

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  There is little doubt that having mandatory minimums actually slows down the court process. There are enormous backlogs now because of COVID-19, so removing as many mandatary minimums as you can should ease some of the pressure on the court system. The reason why it delays the c

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  I think the evidence is fairly clear that a custodial penalty is damaging in terms of rehabilitation and reintegration. If you can hold someone appropriately accountable in the community, it is far better to do it that way, because they maintain their links with housing, with any

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  Thank you very much. I was talking about the benefits of conditional sentencing and how the two-year limit that is proposed in Bill C-5 seems unduly restrictive. The other thing I would suggest is that, if we're going to determine whether or not conditional sentences are havin

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Justice committee  Thank you very much, Chair and committee members. It's a great pleasure to be here before you to share The John Howard Society's views on Bill C-5. For those of you who don't know about The John Howard Society, we are a not-for-profit that is committed to just, effective and hum

May 13th, 2022Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Public Safety committee  I had an opportunity to visit the structured intervention units in January. They had been up and running for a couple of months anyway, and they were pretty disorganized. I went to the one at Millhaven. I'm happy to send you my notes. I'll send those to the clerk.

June 21st, 2021Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer

Public Safety committee  Right. I'd be happy to send my notes to you. You can see my initial observations.

June 21st, 2021Committee meeting

Catherine Latimer