LAWS 3306 Study Guide - Final Guide: Cross-Examination, Equal Protection Clause, Victim Impact Statement

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Law
• Course: LAWS 3306
• Professor: Paolo Giancaterino

Document Summary

Children were recognized as victims and potential victims of sexual violence. Criminal laws were reformed to facilitate reporting, prosecutions, and convictions. Attempts that were made to facilitate prosecutions of child sexual abuse were subject to due-process challenges. Statutory rape and vagrancy offences were struck down. Children no longer seen as children in need of parental guidance, but individuals with same rights as adults. 1984 yoa young offenders act: moved system towards due process, however, due process did not increase liberty or reduce reliance on criminal sanction. Many more young people were imprisoned than under the jda raised issue of whether due process enabled and legitimated increased crime control. 1980s: reports of child sexual abuse to child-welfare authorities increased dramatically, demands for criminal sanction also increased, growing recognition that many children placed in training and residential schools were sexually abused. The evidence counter-revolution: supreme court developed quasi-automatic exclusionary rule under section 24(2) of the charter.