SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Summary Offence, Adversarial System, Trial Division
16 Jan 2017
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Youth justice act enacted with intent of decreasing the use of courts and restricting the use of custody for adolescent offenders, while improving response to serious violent youth crime. The act came into force in 1984 with criticized reviews. The liberal government enacted a completely new statute to replace the yoa, the youth criminal justice act. Community based responses represent a cost-effective way to deal with juvenile offenders. Emphasis on rehabilitation, imprisonment derives adolescents of the social. Makes clear that the act is intended to address canada s (cid:498)over-reliance on incarceration(cid:499) for young offenders. Rehabilitate young persons who commit offences and reintegrate them into. Intended to prevent crime by addressing a persons behavior society. Ensure that a young person is subject to meaningful consequences for his or her offence. Extrajudicial sanctions are non court community based programs that may result in responses such as restitution to a victim or family. Police referrals to a community counseling tend to happen.
