Delwin Delwin:
This is just political boosterism. We already have the dangerous offenders clause to which we could extend the terms to included those involved in multiple murder cases.
Election season is around the corner and the Conservatives are trying to convince us that this time thery are really, really, really going to be tough on crime. Smoke and mirrors.
Unfortunately for your system to work the perpetrator has to normally have committed numerous crimes of the same type before they take the drastic step of actually trying to get a criminal declared a dangerous offender.
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The Canadian Criminal Code, § 753, lists the following provisions that are required to declare an individual a dangerous offender:
753. (1) On application made under this Part after an assessment report is filed under subsection 752.1(2), the court shall find the offender to be a dangerous offender if it is satisfied
(a)that the offence for which the offender has been convicted is a serious personal injury offence described in paragraph (a) of the definition of that expression in section 752 and the offender constitutes a threat to the life, safety or physical or mental well-being of other persons on the basis of evidence establishing (i)a pattern of repetitive behaviour by the offender, of which the offence for which he or she has been convicted forms a part, showing a failure to restrain his or her behaviour and a likelihood of causing death or injury to other persons, or inflicting severe psychological damage on other persons, through failure in the future to restrain his or her behaviour
Here's a profile of a Canadian Dangerous Offender.
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Dangerous Offenders in Canada
Profile
As of March 2010, there are 331 individuals labelled as dangerous offenders in Canada. At this time, all of the dangerous offenders are men, and approximately 40% of them are of Aboriginal origin. The vast majority of dangerous offenders are in prison for sexual offences and most of them served prison sentences before reoffending and being deemed dangerous offenders. Although most dangerous offenders start their criminal careers at an early age, most are not designated until later in life, usually around the age of 40.
Offenders tend statistically to be unemployed, single, and hold only a level of education below grade 10. Studies using the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised (PCL-R) show that dangerous offenders tend to live parasitic lifestyles and engage in promiscuous sexual behaviour; this may be, in part, why so many dangerous offenders are sex offenders. Compared to the average offender, dangerous offenders have more psychopathic traits and tend to have violent family backgrounds and problems both at school and at home during childhood. Studies using the PCL-R and the VRAG (Violence Risk Appraisal Guide) show that dangerous offenders are at a high risk (as high as 98%) for violent recidivism.
http://victimsofviolence.on.ca/rev2/ind ... &Itemid=29So here's the question. Given the profile of and requirements for a criminal to be granted the mythical Dangerous Offender Designation how many innocent lives do you think should be destroyed before the perpetrator is taken off the streets?
All this bill is going to do is make sure the people who commit the most horrific of crimes aren't let back on to the streets numerous times before someone in our fuged up judicial system decides to take the drastic step of protecting the public.
As for me. I'd rather bring back the death penalty for some cases but at least this bill is a step in the right direction.
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