RLG200H1 Study Guide - Youth Criminal Justice Act, Economic Globalization, Cesare Beccaria
Document Summary
Canada boasts a federal department of justice, which embodies and reflects this convention. It can be used in law and legislation to imply the impartiality of the system. Human rights and protections set out by the convention can usefully be divided into three broad groups, often referred to as the three ps": provision, protection, and participation. Rights of provision imply that youth must be afforded basic welfare, which includes the right to survival and development, education, and to be cared for by parents. Rights and social goods are not equally distributed throughout the canadian population. Socio- economic status and class play a significant role: people on the margins are grossly overrepresented in poverty and incarceration rates. Economic globalization, the dismantling of the social welfare net, and the intensification of penal strategies have all contributed to greater inequality and unequal distribution of scarce societal resources in favor of the affluent.
