CC200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Indictable Offence, Young Offenders Act, Reverse Onus
Document Summary
The court: youth court cases have been on the decline since the mid-1990s. Largely attributed to fewer police charges and greater use of diversion through the yoa and into the ycja years: administrative charges and aboriginal offenders are overrepresented in youth courts. Number and percentage of cases in youth court. Pretrial detention: youth under 18 must be held separately from adults. Pretrial detention: the ycja prohibits use of pretrial detention as a substitute for child protection, kept the yoa concept of releasing youth to a responsible person where possible, most youth who are granted interim release have conditions imposed. Pretrial detention: most detained youth are 16 and 17 years of age, more 14- and 15-year-old girls are detained than are boys of these ages, aboriginal youth are more likely to be detained than non-aboriginals. Length of remand has decreased to an average of 6 to 9 days from 21 days in the early 2000s.
