gkloker@utai.UUCP (Geoff Loker) (04/29/85)
This seemed to be the most appropriate network to ask this question on:
Since the introduction of the Young Offenders Act, has there been
an increase in the amount of young offenders?
The reason I ask is that within the past couple of weeks, I have heard of
a number of sex attacks, at least one vicious rape, extremely hazardous
driving (in which shots were fired), and an escape from a detention centre
of someone accused of robbery (using a sawed-off shotgun) -- every single
case involving a young offender, here in Toronto. It strikes me that this
is a higher incidence of young offenders than from days before The Act.
What is the general impression out there?
By the way, the escapee from the detention centre (who was accused of using
a sawed-off shotgun in a robbery) was considered armed and probably dangerous
after his escape, but the police could not ask the public for help in
recapturing him(?) because of the YO Act. When they did recapture him, he
was let out on bail. Says his mother, "I hope they don't change the Y.O.
Act. It has really helped my son." Oh really? :-)
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Geoff Loker
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Toronto, ON
M5S 1A4
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