SOC346H5 Chapter Notes -Recognizance, Mental Disorder, Indictable Offence
Document Summary
Preventive detention refers to confinement or control which, instead of responding to harm that has already been caused, is based on a perception of risk or fear of future crimes. A habitual criminal was defined simply as someone who had been convicted at least 3 times previously of an indictable offence punishable by more than 5 years imprisonment. A dangerous offender application is part of the sentencing process, an individual is entitled to be sentenced in accordance with the sentencing regime extant at the time of the offence unless a subsequent enactment ameliorates the penalty. A dangerous offender haring, which may lead to indeterminate confinement, occurs after conviction in he place of an ordinary sentencing hearing. Central to the dangerous offender designation is a conviction for an antecedent offence which is described as a serious personal injury offence . Code defines this category as: an indictable offence, other than high treason, treason, first degree murder or second degree murder involving.
