AHSS*4050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Youth Criminal Justice Act, Personal Services, Presentence Investigation Report
Document Summary
According to the canadian sentencing commission, sentencing is defined as the judicial of a legal sanction to be imposed on a person found guilty of an offence (canadian sentencing commission, 1987, 153) Section 11(1): if the penalty for an offence changes between the time of the commission of the offence and sentence they will receive the lesser penalty. Section 12: right not to be subjected to any cruel and unusual punishment or treatment. Credit for pre-trial custody: also referred to as dead time is the period of time where an offender is in custody awaiting trial. Legislation limits the maximum credit to one and a half days for every day served in pre-trial custody for youth. In canada a life sentence is an indefinite period of time. For first degree and second degree murder there is an automatic life sentence. For first degree murder the person is eligible for parole after serving 25 years in custody.
