SOC346H5 Chapter Notes -Hybrid Offence, 18 Months, Indictable Offence
Document Summary
Since the ouimet report in 1969, parliament has added some new alternatives to the sentencing matrix: discharges, intermittent sentences, and conditional sentences. Diversion is not a sentencing option since it involves removing someone from the criminal process to another forum where they are not convicted or found guilty, and are not sentenced. Required to take responsibility for their actions and expected to do something in response. Police have been doing it for years. Offender is directed to the diversion project. An apology, community service, or reparative gesture is proposed. If performed, the police or prosecutors are informed and the charge is subsequently withdrawn. If not performed, the matter may be returned to court. The young offenders act included a specific procedure for diversion which was known as. Alternative measures for adults was added to the criminal code in 1996 through the enactment of section 717.
