SOC205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Police Caution, Recognizance, No Charge
24 Dec 2015
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Municipalities find it uneconomic to have their own police force: municipalities can write contracts to have mounties to act as the police force. Structure of the youth justice system under the ycja. Founded/cleared = can confidently identify at least one offender. Founded (substantiated): a violation of the law took place. Cleared: at least one person has been identified (by police) as chargeable. Laid a charge = applied a piece of paper to the justice of the peace (low level judge; work for the government) Arrest = to deprive an individual of liberty. Detention = to hold an individual in police. Police must have reasonable and probable grounds: i. e. reasonable and probable grounds to believe that an. Presumption against arrest, due to presumption of innocence & consequences of arrest: police should: avoid arrest, if youth is arrested, release. Alternatives to arrest rather than detaining: issue suspect with an appearance notice, obtain summons from a justice of the peace using:
