CRM 3312 Lecture : Oct 24.docx

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3312
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

Document Summary

Sometimes proactive, sometimes reactive: most police work is reactive, in response to crime, request from public, most youth court is not detected by police on their own, when a crime is reported, police, gather information. Youth have fewer charter rights when being questioned/ searched by school officials than by police: r. v. a. m police search for drugs with sniffer dogs, without a specific request, but with principals permission, didn"t have any reason to believe there was drugs that day, they were fishing which they were not allowed to do, drugs found and youth charged with possession, youth court found a violation of charter sec. Characteristics of the offender: contact with police before, prior convictions, age, race, gender, ucr2 survey statistics confirm the importance of weapons and harm done as significant factors, relying on what the police are saying and doing.