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Youth Criminal Justice Act: Lessons |
"The Youth Criminal Justice Act" Powerpoint presentation
Run time: 15 minutes
This presentation provides a good overview and background to the Youth Criminal Justice Act can set the stage for other lessons. The "Narrated Presentation" plays automatically from the second slide with automatic slide transitions and voice over. Just start it and let it run or advance to the slide you want and replay explanations or focus on individual components. The "Un-Narrated" version is the same presentation without the voice over or automatic transitions if you wish to click through the presentation on your own. A script is included to reference. If you wish you may have groups of students present or narrate individual slides or create their own slides based on the script as a follow-up integrated technology activity.
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Legal Rights: Section 7-14 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
3 parts - Charter Excerpt, Guiding Questions, Activity Options and Links
Sections 1-14 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms establishes our legal rights within the criminal justice system. This lesson focuses on examination of this section of the charter. The "Legal Rights Questions" can be used for individual student examination of the charter, for a group activity, or as a guide for general class discussion. Suggested extension activities and links are included in the "Legal Rights Activities" handout.
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Rules and Laws: Elementary
3 Student pages + 2 teacher pages - questioning / discussion / writing activity
Questions to guide younger students through the purpose and rational of rules and laws. The questions ask students to look for rules around them and ask questions like: Who makes them? What is their purpose? What are fair consequences? Students are also engaged in deciding what makes a good rule and have an opportunity to make and test their own rules. |
Rules and Laws
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Youth Justice Court: Diagram and Participants
2 student pages + 2 teacher pages
This activity engages students in finding out about the different roles of the courtroom participants and places them in the context of a typical Alberta courtroom. The teacher pages can also be used as student handouts for information purposes.
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Exploring The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)
This is a collection of activities that may be used individually or in combination to explore issues and components of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) more in depth.
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Scope and Principal of the YCJA
4 student pages + 1 teacher page
This activity engages students in an exploration of the scope and principles underlying the YCJA. It engages them in examining excerpts from the act, examining the vocabulary used and underlying intent.
The teacher page includes suggestions for implementation as well as additional resources for extension and exploration. |
Scope and Principal
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Rights and Responsibilities: Police Contact
1 student page
This page outlines student rights and responsibilities when they encounter the police. It relates these rights and responsibilities to the relevant sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. |
Police Contact
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Measures, Court, Detention, Sentencing
11 pages
This document provides students with access to the fundamental details of the act. It contains several sections including, Explanation of Extrajudicial Measures and Extrajudicial Sanctions, Youth Justice Court, Committees and Conferences, Judicial Measures, The Court Process, Detention and Sentencing. Ther are also summaries of the Principles, Measures and Sentencing. This is a valuable information source for discussion and is an essential resource for the Case Study and Role Playing activities. |
Measures
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Publication and Records
5 student pages
Many students have questions specifically about publishing and records. These five pages can be used independently or together to explore publishing, what a record is, how long it lasts, and what the impact of a record is. Two activities sheets include using media databases to search for examples of publication bans and exploring the personal consequences of having a record and remaining record free. |
Records
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Case Studies and Role Playing
6 student + 5 teacher pages
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following case studies students are presented with a number of youth offence scenarios. Based
on what they have read and understand about the Youth Criminal Justice Act from the previous activities and reading, and inquiring into their own sense of
what is just and fair, students work through the cases to determine what might happen to the participants. As
part of the decision making process they are asked to review the basic principles and intentions of the
Youth Criminal Justice Act in order to determine if your response is fair and just.
Teachers have an opportunity to develop and extend this activity through active role playing and extension activities. |
Case studies
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Youth Judicial Process Flowchart and Questions
2 student +1 teacher pages + 1 powerpoint
This activity offers visual support for students to follow the Youth Criminal Justice Process from initial police contact to sentencing. The question sheet helps guide the students through the process, and teacher answer sheet enable the instructor to fill in the blanks and provide supporting information. Teachers may wish to make overheads of the flowchart or they may wish to use the Powerpoint to walk students through the Question sheet (includes answers and visual cues to enabl estudents to follow along on their own flow chart).
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