[PSY3173] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (27 pages long)

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3173
• Professor: Marie- Lyne Laliberte

Document Summary

Areas where police discretion is used: youth crime. There is a strong belief that formal criminal justice processing is probably not the most effective response in dealing with many young offenders. Police officers will have a great deal of discretion when dealing with kids that are. There can be a formal arrest, family conference, community referrals etc. In canada, police officers actively encourage discretion for youth. They will usually try to resolve the situation informally (by involving the parents, a social worker, they may arrest them for a bit just to scare them and the release them, or refer them to community intervention programs) The reason that formal processing is not the best idea is because putting them is jail can put these kinds in contact with more serious offenders and kids are very impressionable. When officers encounter someone with a mental illness that is creating a disturbance or that pose a harm to themselves or to others, they can: