LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Mental Health Court, Anne Mclellan
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Guest speaker lecture concerning the youth criminal justice act: a crown perspective - fara. The predecessor legislation : the young offender"s act (yoa) Governed the prosecution of youth from 1984 until the ycja was implemented. The yoa established the national age of criminal responsibility at 12 years old. Yoa established that youths could only be prosecuted if they broke a law. Previously, youths could be prosecuted on the grounds that it was in their best interests . The demands for change from the canadian public mounted in 1999 in response to a high pro le case: then, 15-year-old johnathan wambuck was beaten and nearly murdered in. The perpetrators were a group of other teens. Facts: june 29th, 1999, jw was walking from through a park. He stopped to use the public washroom at the park. A group of teens attacked him, however, he was eventually able to.
