CRIM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Best Interests, Youth Criminal Justice Act, Psychopathy Checklist
11 Dec 2015
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Sentencing is individualized, indeterminate, diagnose, intervene, and treat individual needs. Child care professionals and probation officers pivotal. Un-socialized youth as the cause of youth crime. Administrative decision-maker, diversion from court, alternatives to custody, retraining youth. Due process, informality, criminal offences, terminate sentences, diagnose but also punish. Key people are layers and childcare experts. Due process, criminal offences, determinate sentences, least restrictive measures, proportionality. Youth are criminally responsible, society must be protected from them. Due process, discretion, punishment, determinate sentences, status offences. No youth justice system in canada until 1908. Previously, youth were treated as miniature adults" Often placed in prisons with adult offenders; such laces were viewed as crime schools and smaller youth were at risk of victimization. Child savers movement believed the welfare of youth was at risk. Poor family background - youth lack maturity and values. Judge could sentence a youth to the custody of a probation officer.
