CRM 3319 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Drug Court, Suspended Sentence, Victim Surcharge
12 Nov 2016
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To be in the program, you must be convicted and plead guilty to the offence. Be willing to recover from the addiction. 9-18 months depending how well you do. Honesty is the best policy 8:30am the next morning. Tuesday is a treatment group stages of change. Wednesday basics and lifestyle: get out of criminal mindset. Free to do whatever they want on the weekend. Sanctions community service, bail revocation, almost always community service hours. If you don"t report your use on time or at all then you get sanctioned. Section 731 provides the authority to place the offender on probation having regard to. The age and character of the offender, the nature of the offence, and the circumstances surrounding its commission . Four different ways that probation can be imposed: 1) para 731(1)(a): suspended sentence with probation (provided there is no minimum punishment for the offence, 2) para 731(1)(b): join probation to a fine, or imprisonment (but not both).
