SOC219H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Youth System, Young Offenders Act, Adjournment Sine Die
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Aboriginal: despite section 712, we have not seen a decrease in the, long term- representation of aboriginals in the cjs. Need to address underlying systemic factors- need to look at issues around poverty b/c there is a relationship between poverty and crime. Need to stop and: short term- reflect, remove the politics. Just changing the law, is not going to have a dramatic impact. Need to narrow a focus that cjs is only good to hold plp accountable and not for anything else. Suggest that in the context of young plp, we are more reluctant to send them to jail. About 78% say young should not be sentence to prison but about 50% say old should not be sentenced to prison: why, because youth have a diff cognitive aspect. There are challenges to reason in a logical fashion. Because logical capacity is developed, as you get older, so may feed into one"s ability to understand the cjs.
