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The Nature of Crime
Arrests and Appeals
Youth Criminal Justice
Criminal Cases
Crime and Punishment
100
When something is against the law but not criminal.
What is illegal?
100
Canadian law tries to protect society by balancing investigation and arrest rights of the police with individual rights guaranteed by this document.
What is the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
100
The Youth Criminal Justice Act was introduced in this year.
What is 2003?
100
This man euthanized his daughter, Tracy, after a long and agonizing battle with cerebral palsy.
Who is Robert Latimer?
100
The maximum sentence in Canadian criminal law.
What is 25 years?
200
The main source of criminal law in Canada.
What is the criminal code?
200
The police may issue one of these for summary offenses, hybrid offenses, or less serious indictable offenses.
What is an appearance notice?
200
According to the YCJA, the current age of criminal responsibility for youth.
What is 12 years old?
200
These 'Ken and Barbie' killers were responsible for the sexual assaults and murders of Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French.
Who are Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo?
200
Canada's last execution took place in 1962 in this city.
What is Toronto?
300
The physical act of committing a crime.
What is actus reus?
300
Canada's final court of appeal.
What is the Supreme Court of Canada?
300
This fourteen year old girl was beaten to death on Vancouver Island on November 14, 1997, setting off a legal battle that would last for twelve years.
Who is Reena Virk?
300
This former Canadian forces Colonel from Orleans is now a convicted murder and rapist.
Who is Russell Williams?
300
An exception and extension can be made to the 25 year 'life sentence' if a person is labeled as one of these.
What is a 'dangerous offender?'
400
The 'guilty mind.'
What is mens rea?
400
In 1994, Parliament passed a law that gave the police the power to use this certain situations.
What is deadly force?
400
The YCJA is not designed to be retributive. It is designed with this more progressive sense of justice.
What is restorative justice?
400
This former pig farmer and serial killer was convicted in 2007 of the second-degree murders of six women, but may have killed up to forty-nine.
Who is Robert Pickton?
400
The Canadian city which traditionally houses most of Canada's convicted criminals.
What is Kingston?
500
A crime of considerable severity, more serious than a summary offense.
What is an indictable offense?
500
Legal disputes with the federal government are heard here.
What is federal court?
500
The Justice Minister who recently released the federal government's new cyberbullying legislation.
Who is Peter Mackay?
500
Patrick Whelan was convicted for the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee. He was reportedly a member of this Irish republican organization.
What is the Fenian Brotherhood?
500
When sentences are served discontinuously, like a convicted man serving time on weekends but not during the week.
What is intermittent sentencing?