Sentences with phrase «as dangerous offenders»

His current research is focused on the Mr. Big investigative technique, and Aboriginal over-representation as dangerous offenders subject to indeterminate detention.

In reviewing publicly available statistics one learns that, since the inception of the dangerous offender regime in 1977, on average 18 Canadian offenders per year have been designated as dangerous offenders.

Saskatchewan Crown wants child pornographer labelled as a dangerous offender, Canadian Press

The Applicant appealed the dismissal of his application to have s. 753 (4.1) declared constitutionally invalid as well as his designation as a dangerous offender and indeterminate sentence.

Not exact matches

Tomasi says Correctional Services Canada also offers yearly training programs for parole officers to update their skills in certain areas, such as supervising Aboriginal offenders, or working with dangerous offenders.

Republican Assemblymen Jim Tedisco and Steve McLaughlin and Sen. Hugh Farley held a news conference just before Memorial Day asking for a «three strikes» law that would hit multiple offenders with lifetime revocation, although that concept encompassed all forms of dangerous driving as opposed to crimes specifically related to drunken or drugged operation.

Too few local authorities fine, and many fail to fine the worst offenders, such as young urban males, as wardens perceive them to be a threatening and dangerous, they said.

In the autumn Mr Reid announced operation safeguard - which allows the use of police cells - as an emergency measure, and last month he reminded courts they should only be sending the most dangerous offenders to jail.

Seems dogs deemed dangerous have about the same rights to privacy as a sex offender — that is, virtually none.

Unlike sex offender maps, which don't specify the offense or use photos of the offenders, canine offenders have their photos posted, as well as a brief summary of their dangerous behavior.

The new website, as of yesterday, lists 35 dangerous dogs in Minneapolis (compared to 146 people on the map of sex offenders residing in the city).

That was despite his previous conviction and treatment for sexual offending as part of a 1993 probation order, a fact the Crown put forward among the arguments for a dangerous offender designation.

(i) If the dangerous offender provisions are satisfied the judge still retains a discretion as to whether to impose an indeterminate or extended sentence.

The headline points are: ● prolonged, persistent and deliberate bad driving and consumption of drink and drugs puts offenders in the most serious category with jail sentences of at least seven years; ● a combination of these features of dangerous driving accompanied by aggregating factors, such as a bad driving record, attracts sentences towards 14 years; ● careless driving under the influence of drink or drugs provides for a longer sentence, as the degree of intoxication increases; ● regarding mobile phones — an offender distracted by a handheld mobile phone when the offence was committed will be treated as particularly serious; ● reading or composing texts over a period of time at the wheel is also likely to result in a higher level of seriousness and offenders should serve up to seven years in prison.

If you are serving a life sentence or indeterminate sentence for murder, or are found to be a Dangerous Offender by the court, then the law sets Parole Eligibility for Full Parole as follows:

If an indication is given, the judge should make it clear that if the defendant is later assessed as «dangerous», the sentences mandated by CJA 2003 — an indeterminate or extended sentence — will be imposed and that, if the accused is assessed as dangerous, the indication can only relate to the notional determinate term which will be used in the calculation of the minimum specified period the offender would have to serve before he may apply to the Parole Board to direct his release or, in a case where an extended sentence is the only lawful option, it will relate to the appropriate custodial term within the extended sentence — that is, the indication does not encompass the length of any extension period during which the offender will be on licence following his release.Criminal Justice Act 2003 (Commencement No 16) Order 2007 (SI 2007/1999) Section 29 of CJA 2003 creates (in the case of public prosecutions only) a new method of commencing criminal proceedings — written charge and requisition, to replace laying an information and issuing a summons.

No formal timetable for commencement has been set, but it is widely expected that new provisions relating to the sentencing of dangerous offenders will be brought in to force as early as July 2008.

(v) If the offender is later assessed as «dangerous», the indication can only relate to the notional determinate term which will be used in the calculation of the minimum specified period the offender would have to serve before he may apply to the Parole Board to direct his release; or, in a case where an extended sentence is the only lawful option, it will relate to the appropriate custodial term within the extended sentence — that is, the indication does not encompass the length of any extension period during which the offender will be on licence following his release.

As a result of this third conviction, Section 753 (1.1) placed the onus on Mr. Hill to prove that he was not a «dangerous offender,» who should remain incarcerated for an «indeterminate» period of time.

A presumption that a given accused is a «dangerous offender,» worthy of indefinitely incarceration, is therefore in violation of the principles of fundamental justice, as follows:

Justice reinvestment still retains prison as a measure for dangerous and serious offenders but actively shifts the culture away from imprisonment and starts providing community wide services that prevent offending.

Cecilia Saulters - Tubbs found that district attorneys were less likely to file charges against female drug offenders than against male offenders, while Donna Bishop and Charles Frazier found, similarly, that boys were treated more punitively than girls for delinquency offenses and that girls were less likely than boys to receive a sentence involving incarceration.10 Such studies suggest that the system treats girls as less criminally dangerous than boys.11 Other research, however, notes that once legal variables are controlled, girls are treated similarly to boys in the early stages of court processing but more harshly in the later stages.12 Earlier studies pointing toward more «chivalrous» treatment of girls may thus have failed to consider differences in the underlying seriousness of the offenses involved.

Justice reinvestment still retains prison as a measure for dangerous and serious offenders.