LAWS 3307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Young Offenders Act, Omar Khadr, Restorative Justice
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12-15 pages (title and bib not included), double spaced. 50% of final grade subject young person being sentenced as adult posted on culearn all juve justice system has provision that allows those to serve sentences identical to adult sentences if needed(?) Textbook compare 3 systems (ycja, yoa, __) and discus which u think is more preferable. When you plan a serious penalty before you convict somebody, you must let the offender know of this. Ycja, under harper, made some changes where cases that are large in nature, the onus of proof to not be sentenced as an adult if that on the accused to prove. Doesn"t have to work, but the community wants to try so that revenge doesn"t go down to generation after gen after gen. This principle tries to break that cycle: the idea is to sit down and see if you can come up with something other than the judicial process.
