ADJUS-121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Young Offenders Act
26 Aug 2020
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Police are of fundamental importance in the maintenance of law. Topics: discretion: youth/driving while black, policing styles: broken windows policing, law & police: how does law structure police work, policing in action: interrogation. Structuring police discretion : the effect on referrals to youth court. Canadian police have a duty to enforce the law, but the authority not to charge in any particular case even the most serious cases. Canadian legislation governing police discretion with young offenders: the criminal law applying to young persons and to adults the criminal. Code (1985) is federal legislation that applies uniformly across the entire nation. However, whereas criminal law is a federal responsibility under the canadian. Constitution, the administration of justice, including the provision of police services, courts, and correctional services, is a provincial responsibility, and this inevitably introduces provincial variations into the way the criminal.
