Evaluation of the Apprehension Policy in Saskatchewan

Evaluation of the Apprehension Policy in Saskatchewan
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The Apprehension Policy in Saskatchewan Area in Canada
Abstract
The paper looks into the apprehension policy that leads to incarceration and imprisonment of children in Saskatchewan area in Canada. The first part of the paper traces down the history and the time at which this policy started and what the policy entails. The paper narrows down to deeper details of the purpose and why the particular incarceration policy aims at arresting and imprisonment of the young population. Subsequently, the research looks deeper into the development of this particular policy and the period between which the policy became law. From the above areas, the paper gives a scope of changes and amendments that the paper could go through for it to fit well in the system and the parameters to apply to apply in an attempt of exempting children from incarceration and imprisonment.
Key Words: Apprehension policy, Saskatchewan, Incarceration
Introduction
The paper covers the apprehension policy among the juvenile in Saskatchewan zone in the Canadian state. There are prominent impacts involved in the detention policy on children based on findings from studies relating to Child Warfare groups. The government of Canada apprehends children especially the native children at a high rate, which causes the concern if the government is playing its primary role of caring for its citizens effectively. The apprehension process in children affects their way of life and the bonds and relations the children have with their family members as incarceration prevents them from parental love and guidance as children. In addition, the police lock the caught children into prison structures, which affected their general way of life in many perspectives especially their health status. The research looks deeper into the reason that leads to the apprehension of juveniles in the country and the federal procedures used to incarcerate children in Saskatchewan. In most of the Canadian streets, there are homeless children that police apprehend regularly. The homeless children often have an association with petty crimes such as robbing pedestrians as their survival means. The paper focuses on the children apprehension process, history of the policy used, nature of the policy, the time it became law, and the changes that the government can make to the policy in an attempt to ensure the policy adapts and works well with the primary objective to help children.
The Apprehension Process of Children in Saskatchewan and the History of the Policy?
There are key aspects involved in the children apprehension procedure. To start with, the apprehension procedure aligns itself with the United Nations Convection under Article 12 (Lovinsky and Jessica, 2015). In this case, the convection gives a mandate to a child who qualifies to express his or her perspective to express the views based on the criteria of maturity and age of the child. In addition, the child has the power under the regulations of the natural law to express himself or herself in the presence of a judicial through a representative. The above aspects involved in the apprehension of children aim to give a child a right to independence in the legal system where the child goes after apprehension occurs. The apprehension procedure is quite unfair. The reason behind this is that some of the legal sentiments that guide the child-imprisonment procedure target the native children.
Research show that most child apprehensions happen based on discriminative profiling from police units. The reason behind this is that most police officers tend to target minority groups with the youth being a major target. Most officers have the perception that youth are responsible for most of the criminal activities experienced around many areas of the country (Baskin, et al. 2015). An example of a vulnerable group often apprehended are the homeless children in the streets. Most of the arrests base on assumption that they idle in the streets terrorizing the pedestrians and citizens who pass the streets as a way of living. Because most of these children live in abject poverty, they lack legal presentations in their court cases. In addition, most of the juveniles could trivially defend themselves as they express themselves in a manner that cannot liberate them. For the above reasons, they face jail imprisonment charges where some of the children are guilty while others might be innocent of the alleged offences they face.
The history of child apprehension became alarming in the period around the last sixteen years. From the Child Advocate Office of 2000, most cases of child apprehension became alarming at in the period around the early 2000s (Tait, Robert and Rachel, 2013). A significant number of children get parental care at their tend age. However, based on their interactions with other children in schools and adoption of new cultures, some of the children leave the moral path that their parents had raised them up in and adopt new lifestyles that may lead them to unlawful activities. From the formulation of the child welfare policies, several factors that lead most family members to poverty cycles, which contribute to children resulting to criminal activities as a survival means, other children run from home and adopt new lifestyles, where they run away from home and join the homeless children in the streets. Most of the homeless and street children face apprehensions where they go to the legal systems and faces sentences according to the crimes and offences under the claims and allegations they face in courts.
The Purpose and Development of the Apprehension Policy among Children
The main purpose of the apprehension policy among children is to regulate juvenile crimes in the country. Most youths and juvenile are unemployed. On the other hand, the children in their youthful stage tend to like pleasure and leisure related activities while they are unemployed and lack money. Some ...