Pre-Trial Detention Under the Young Offenders Act: A Study of Urban Courts
TABLE 4.5 -
SIGNIFICANT RELATIONSHIPS AMONG SOCIAL, SOCIO-LEGAL AND LEGAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CONDITIONS OF COURT UNDERTAKINGS, CONTROLLING FOR ALL FACTORS SIMULTANEOUSLY
Non-legal (social) factors
|
Non-comm. victim |
Non-comm. other |
Area rest. |
Work or school |
No alcohol/drugs |
No weapons |
Curfew |
House arrest |
| Being female |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Age |
|
|
|
* |
* |
|
|
|
| Race (black/Aboriginal) |
* |
|
|
|
|
* |
|
|
Socio-legal factors
|
Non-comm. victim |
Non-comm. other |
Area rest. |
Work or school |
No alcohol/drugs |
No weapons |
Curfew |
House arrest |
| Living outside family setting |
|
** |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Alleged substance abuser |
- |
- |
- |
- |
* |
|
|
|
Legal factors
|
Non-comm. victim |
Non-comm. other |
Area rest. |
Work or school |
No alcohol/drugs |
No weapons |
Curfew |
House arrest |
| Having a co-accused |
- |
*** |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Number of prior convictions |
|
** |
|
|
|
*** |
|
|
| Having prior bail violations |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
* |
| Number of current charges |
|
* |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Person charge at arrest |
*** |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Property charge at arrest |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
** |
- |
| Current charge is indictable person |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
*** |
| Current charge is either indictable person or administration of justice |
- |
- |
*** |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Current charges is probation breach |
- |
- |
- |
|
- |
- |
- |
- |
| Current charge is "other" offence e.g. drinking & driving |
- |
- |
- |
- |
** |
- |
- |
- |
| Current charge is either person or "other" offence |
- |
- |
- |
- |
- |
*** |
- |
- |
Notes: *** p<.001, **p<.01, *p<.05. If the cell is blank, then the factor was not statistically associated with the condition. "-" means that the variable was not included in the model.
