YRAP
This YRAP committee pairs trained volunteers with youth looking for a positive role model
What is the mentorship committee?
The section of the YCJA that permits youth justice committees to convene conferences for various legal purposes
What is Section 19?
A significant participant of restorative justice programs, often overlooked in traditional, punishment-focused approaches to crime
What is the victim?
Criminal law in Canada is under the jurisdiction of this level of government
What is the federal government?
This term refers to a body of ordinary citizens chose to decide a verdict at a trial
What is a jury?
A custodial facility, YRAP runs prosocial programming with the youth here three times a week.
What is the Edmonton Young Offenders Centre?
Both starting with the letter R, these are the guiding principles of the YCJA that provide an alternative to traditional punishment of young offenders.
What is rehabilitation and reintegration?
A key component of many restorative justice programs, these aptly-named meetings are where victims, community members, the offender, and families can come together to promote accountability and healing
What are (restorative) circles?
This specialized document presented at sentencing/bail hearings outlines the unique systemic and historical background of an Indigenous offender that may have contributed to their offending behaviour
What is a Gladue report?
This university’s law school is named after Canadian lawyer and philanthropist Peter A. Allard
What is the University of British Columbia?
The YRAP program that provides youth and families with support navigating the court system, including resources related to translation, bail recommendation plans, support letters, and transportation.
What is the Court Support Program?
According to the YCJA, this form of extrajudicial measure cannot be used if the young person denies involvement in the commission of the offence.
What is an extrajudicial sanction?
As opposed to just an individual victim or victims, restorative justice sees this as the primary thing harmed by crime
What is community?
This is the standard of proof required for a finding of guilt
What is “beyond a reasonable doubt?”
Founded in 1912, this law school is the oldest in Western Canada
What is the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law?
The three main types of legal files that YRAP can support with
What are extrajudicial sanctions, sentencing files, and bail files?
The youth justice court may use this section of the YCJA to order a medical, psychological, or psychiatric assessment of a young person at any stage of the proceedings
What is Section 34?
As opposed to asking “which law has been broken?” or “who should be punished?,” restorative justice often aims to repair this harmed component
What is a relationship?
This defence may reduce a charge of murder to manslaughter if there is evidence that the homicide was done “in the heat of passion”
What is provocation?
The provincial flower of Alberta, this flower blooms from June to July and is a bright pink colour.
What is the wild rose?
YRAP’s success rate for legal files this past year (%)
What is 97%
Outlined in Section 40 of the YCJA, this report provides an overview of a young person’s personal and family history, as well as present circumstances
What is a pre-sentence report?
This aptly-named Edmonton-based youth justice committee predominantly supports female young offenders
What is JustUs Girls?
This type of “regulatory offence” requires the prosecution to prove only the commission of an unlawful act without the need to prove a guilty mind
What is a strict liability offence?
This classic LSAT flaw occurs when one treats a condition that is merely needed for a result as if it were a condition that guarantees the result.
What is confusing a sufficient condition for a necessary condition?