ABSTRACT
Introduction 157 e Young O€enders Act 158 e Youth Criminal Justice Act 159 Police Procedures at the Gateway 160 Detention of Young O€enders 162 Contextual Variables, Discretion, and the Principle of Proportionality 164 Extrajudicial Measures and the Welfare State Revisited 168 Outstanding Issues 174 Conclusion 175 Notes 176 References 176
Industrial Revolution was a particularly regressive time for children’s rights. Many of the di–culties experienced by children of that era could be attributed to the prevailing social construction of children as “miniature adults” (Davis-Baron 2009). Furthermore, the justice dispensed by the police, and by Canadian government in general, was signišcantly worse than that a€orded adults (Swiª 1995).
