#WHAT IS THE PURPOSES OF SENTENCING CODE#

the unrealistically high maximum terms of imprisonment set out in the Criminal Code.absence of any clearly articulated sentencing policy or purposes.In the twenty-one year journey from Ouimet (1969) to the Green Paper (1990), the authors of these reports repeated again and again the same deficiencies in Canada’s sentencing laws: In many significant respects Bill C-41 and Bill C-90 were very similar. On Jthe newly elected Liberal government introduced Bill C-41 Footnote 12 which was enacted in 1995 and came into force as our new sentencing law on September 3rd, 1996. But when an election was called later that year, Bill C-90 died on the order paper. The Bill did not return to Parliament for second reading until May 7th, 1993 and was then partially examined in Committee (May 12 and 25, 1993). In June 1992, the Conservative government gave first reading to Bill C-90 Footnote 11 dealing with sentencing reform. In 1990, the federal government issued a Green Paper entitled Sentencing: Directions for Reform Footnote 10 which followed closely the recommendations in the Daubney Report. In 1988, Parliament’s Standing Committee on Justice and Solicitor General published a report entitled Taking Responsibility Footnote 9 ( Daubney Report) which largely reviewed the recommendations in the Canadian Sentencing Commission’s Report. In 1987, the Canadian Sentencing Commission released its Final Report entitled Sentencing Reform: A Canadian Approach, Footnote 8 which was the most detailed, extensive and empirically researched study of sentencing ever conducted in Canada. It was shaped and influenced by a number of sentencing stops along the way: the Ouimet Report in 1969 Footnote 3 multiple reports by the Law Reform Commission of Canada between 19 Footnote 4 the federal government Report entitled Criminal Law in Canadian Society in 1982 Footnote 5 and 3 related events in 1984: the release of the federal government’s Report entitled Sentencing, Footnote 6 the introduction and death of Bill C-19 Footnote 7 dealing with sentencing, and the appointment of a one-time Sentencing Commission to study and report, amongst other things, on sentencing guidelines and how such guidelines may be best utilized. The road to the enactment of Bill C-41 Footnote 2 in 1995, which provided new sentencing provisions in Part XXIII of the Criminal Code, was a long and arduous one. Background to the Enactment of Sections 718-718.21 The Genesis and Content of the Current Statement 1. A Review of the Principles and Purposes of Sentencing in Sections 718-718.21 of the Criminal Codeĭ.

What is the purposes of sentencing