Fast Facts and Impacts of Law on Criminal Justice in Canada, Study notes of Law

Download Fast Facts and Impacts of Law on Criminal Justice in Canada and more Study notes Law in PDF only on Docsity! Law in Action Facts Fast Fact. Approximately 63% of new offenders in correctional institutions test at or below a grade eight level in mathematics and language. Fast Fact After serving one-sixth of a sentence, an inmate can apply for day parole to attend certain events such as funerals and religious holidays. Fast Fact Women represent 9% of the inmate population in provincial prisons and 4% in federal prisons. Fast Fact From 1998 to 1999, 42% of convicted offenders received a term of probation, 40% received fines and 35% were incarcerated. Fast Fact Electronic monitoring began in Canada as a pilot program in Vancouver in 1987. This program led to the use of EM in British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Ontario. Law in Your Life If you acquire a criminal record, • you may be unable to travel outside Canada • deported it you are a landed immigrant • denied employment in certain industries • prevented from obtaining a professional licence • refused a firearms acquisition certificate "Most people come out of jail eventually. So you have to consider what's going to be the effect of jail on this person, on the community, when he or she gets out. " - Madam Justice Mary Hogan Docsity.com