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Canada: Proposed Youth Criminal Justice Act would give judges power to consider non-criminal behavior when sentencing youth

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Youth sentencing changes proposed Amendment named for Quebec teen who died in 2004 March 16, 2010 | 4:11 PM ET \ The Canadian Press The Conservative government hopes changes proposed Tuesday will make "protection of society a primary goal" of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. Justice Minister Rob Nicholson said he wants to give judges the power to consider non-criminal behaviour when sentencing Canadians under age 18. Such behaviour would include a "casual attitude to the law [and] complete lack of empathy for the victim," said Nicholson, flanked by the mothers of two youths who were killed by young offenders. The changes would also permit sentencing judges to take into account evidence of previous brushes with the law that did not result in charges or convictions...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on March 17, 2010 (boomark / email).