Vocabulary 1
The permanent documentation of a person’s criminal behaviour
What is a criminal record?
The application of laws
what is Justice?
If you are arrested, you have the right to.... (Name 1)
What is to...
-remain silent, speak to a lawyer/parent/guardian, have parents with you during questioning, to have a lawyer if you go to court
A jury is made up of this many people.
What is twelve?
True or False: Youth crime rate has gone down since the implementation of the YCJA
What is FALSE?
To instill positive behaviors & attitudes in a person through programs and interventions.
What is a rehabilitation?
Help in the community performed as part of a sentence such as assisting with community clean up
What is community service?
the YCJA deals with youth from ages ____ to _____
what is ages 12-17?
Anyone _______ years old and older is eligible to serve on a jury
What is 18?
Under the YCJA, young offenders receive a criminal record that will be wiped after their 18th birthday.
What is FALSE?
Laws created through the legislative process
What is legislation?
Governed by rules that apply to everyone taking into account individual needs and circumstances
what is fair and equitable?
The YCJA allows most young offenders to avoid this.
Canada's legislation to provide justice to Adult Offenders.
What is The Criminal Code of Canada
Groups that try to solve the underlying reasons for crime
What is advocacy groups?
A consequence for a crime such as imprisonment, determined by a court of law
What is a sentence?
To be united with the wider society again
What is reintergrate?
One of the four main objectives of the YCJA
What is crime prevention, rehabilitation and reintegration, or meaningful consequences.
The year the Youth Criminal Justice Act came into effect (the year it was passed in parliament)
what is 2003?
The use of an Indigenous traditions to restore justice by involving the victim, the offender and the community
What are Youth Justice Committees or Sentencing Circles?
A group of people sworn to give a verdict in a legal case
what is a Jury?
Aims to hold a young person accountable without proceeding through the formal court process.
What is extrajudicial measures?
Before the YCJA every young person who broke the law was charged and sent to court.
what is TRUE?
Where a young offender is sent if they do not finish their community service.
What is court?
The age that young offenders can receive adult sentences
What is 14?
The institutions and procedures for applying laws in a society
What is the Justice System?
Refers to the separation of the jury from contact
What is sequester?
The four factors that help decide what happens to young offenders.
What is the...
1. The seriousness of the offence
2. The history of the young person
3. The attitude of the young person
4. The circumstances of the young person
The media cannot publish names of youth who commit crimes unless _____
What is the youth is given an adult sentence?
Name BOTH of the advocacy groups we learned about
What is John Howard Society and Elizabeth Fry Society