Long-Term and Dangerous Offender Designation

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Introduction

See also: List of Dangerous Offender Designated Offences

Part XXIV of the Code, between s. 752 and 761, creates a regime to designate certain offenders as either "long-term offenders" (LTO) or "dangerous offenders" (DO). These offenders will be subject to either a long-term offender supervision order, in the case of an LTO, or an order of indeterminate detention, in the case of the DO.

A DO order is a "preventative sentence ... in its clearest and most extreme form".[1]

Purpose

The Purpose of DO orders is not punitive and not rehabilitative. It is first and foremost for the purpose of segregating the offender from society.[2] It applies to those offenders where segregation is a "rational means" of achieving public safety.[3]

  1. ↑ R v Boutilier, 2017 SCC 64 (CanLII), [2017] 2 SCR 936, per Côté J, at para 33
    R v Sipos, 2014 SCC 47, [2014] 2 SCR 423, per Cromwell J, at para 19
  2. ↑ Boutilier, supra, at para hpg4c
  3. ↑ Boutilier, supra, at para hpg4c

History

The provisions of the Criminal Code regarding indefinite detention arose from the 1938 Archambault Report that recommended implementing a regime that separated dangerous offenders from society. In 1947 the first amendments were made creating an indefinite detention order for "habitual criminals".[1]

The first amendment to the Criminal Code introducing the dangerous offender regime was in 1977.[2] It was later amended in 1997 and the in 2008 with the Tackling Violent Crime Act (SC 2008, c. 6).[3]

  1. ↑ R v Ipeelee, 2012 SCC 13 (CanLII), [2012] 1 SCR 433, per LeBel J, at paras 40 to 45
  2. ↑ R v Boutilier, 2016 BCCA 235 (CanLII), 336 CCC (3d) 293, per D Smith JA, at para 24
  3. ↑ Boutilier, ibid., at para 23
    see List of Criminal Code Amendments

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