Write a six to nine-page (1500-2250 words) essay that relates and applies the course material found in Module Eight to two of the online videos.
Videos:
● Behind the Wall; 2010 (video; 49:00 CC) https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2675576109
● Life Inside Out; 2005 (video, 1:13:29 CC) https://www.nfb.ca/film/life_inside_out/
Module 8, Section 8.2:
For most of Western history, the treatment of impoverished and imprisoned citizens was the
defining test of a nation’s civilization. If a society abused its least wealthy, tortured and
neglected its civilian prisoners, and killed its prisoners of war, it was not a civilized
country.(Module 8, Section 8.2, Section 8.2: Rehabilitation and Restorative Justice)
It developed from the public’s dissatisfaction with a criminal justice system that neither
helped victims nor stopped re-offenders by treating a crime as an abstract offence committed
against Canada rather than a transgression that occurred between real people. (Module 8,
Section 8.2, Restorative Justice)
Most psychologists and criminologists agree that “stigmatization increases law-breaking” by
alienating already marginalized individuals, shattering their self-worth, and encouraging them
to identify with an anti-social label. To Nussbaum, “using shame to control crimes is like
using gasoline to put out fire.” (Module 8, Section 8.2, Restorative Justice and Recidivism)