Canadian Criminal Justice Review

Where does the word 'penitentiary' originate from?

• Royal Commission

• Community- Based Sentencing

• Punishment & Penitence

• Corrections Canada

The RNR Model stands for ......

• Risk Need Responsibility

• Reducing Narcotic Recidivism

• Risk Need Responsivity

• Reducing Native Rights

Probation & Fines are examples of Community-Based Sentences

• Agree

• Disagree

The purpose of 'Conditional Release' is to test the offender?

• Agree

• Disagree

Answer explanation

Rehabilitation

Reintegration

Maintenance of Society

The Youth Criminal Justice Act replaced the ____________in ____.

(a)  

In 2003, the government responded to the perceived weaknesses of the Young Offenders Act (YOA) by replacing it with the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)

• Agree

• Disagree

The Sixties Scoop was a brand of ice cream created by a famous Indigenous person on a reserve in the 1960's

• Agree

• Disagree

Answer explanation

A term coined by Patrick Johnston in the 1983 report of native children and the child welfare system to refer to the mass removal of Indigenous children from their families and home communities and into the child welfare system in 1960s

One factor influencing Intergenerational Trauma in Canada's First Peoples was the Residential School System

• Agree

• Disagree

Racial Profiling involves matching images of people from similar races

• Agree

• Disagree

Answer explanation

Racial Profiling; the act of law enforcement officers to consider people more suspicious or more likely to commit a crime based on the colour of their skin or ethnicity.

There are psychological effects of profiling that can significantly impact young people into their adulthood

• Agree

• Disagree