SOC 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Young Offenders Act, Reform School, Shoplifting

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 3710
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Non-custodial sanctions: gone to court, been found guilty, and have been sentenced some kind of community supervision. 12 months: most often used with violent offences, serious property offences, and drug offences. Intended to be rehabilitative: similar to probation in that its served in community and has conditions but intended to provide much closer monitoring than probation might. Evolution of quebec"s legislative framework: among the most successful for keeping youth out of jail. Industrial schools act and reform school act (1869: developed to ensure that youth shipped from england to canada would be taken care of, reform: aimed to rehabilitate young offenders under 16 years old. Intended to deal with youth who needed protection and with young people who were charged with criminal code offence. The evolution of interventions: transformation of open-custody interventions. Intensive probation experiments in the 1990s focused on offenders with a higher likelihood of re-offending: alternative justice measures.