Only a minority of these youth, however, are actually charged with a violation under s. 137 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The implications of this research for judges, Probation Officers, policy-makers and researchers are discussed.Latimer, JeffUniversity of Ottawa...
Arlington County has created a new youth program aimed at diverting young people who commit crimes from the criminal justice system. The program, called “Heart of Safety,” is the first county program established to find alternatives to prosecution in certain misdemeanor and felony cases committed ...
Canada’s Youth CriminalJusticeAct (YCJA),which governs how Canada deals with young persons in trouble with the law, is intended to respect and protect the rights of a young person in several ways.One way is by protecting the young person’s privacy. In most cases, it is against the law...
: Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act, Aboriginal Youth and the Processes of Exclusion After a decade of high incarceration rates, the Canadian Department of Justice has revised its approach to juvenile justice. Enshrined in the Youth Crimina... BR Hogeveen - 《Critical Criminology》 被引量: 11...
As a big federal country, Canada has taken a series of actions since 1908. So far, there are three justice acts in the history of Canadian juvenile justice system, the 1908 Juvenile Delinquents Act, the 1982 Young Offenders Act, and the 2003 Youth Criminal Justice Act. In Canada, the ...
criminal justice actors in Canada borrow from concerns over sexual exploitation of children and particularly the 1980s and 1990s panics over youth in the sex trade. In historically precedented ways, these concerns are used to target the sex trade under the guise of “saving the children” from ...
Canada legalized recreational cannabis in 2018, and one of the primary objectives of the Cannabis Act was to protect youth by reducing their access to cannabis and providing public education. Canada has the highest prevalence of cannabis use worldwide, p
(66.8% males, 32.9% females, 0.3% reported as not identifying as male or female;Mage=11.02,SD = 3.42) who sought outpatient services for complex needs at a children’s tertiary service agency in Ontario, Canada within 12 months before the pandemic start date (March 1, 2019 to ...
hoping to spin that shift into a false win. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick claims that DDT has beaten Canada and Mexico into submission, and they promised to “do better.” It won’t be a pause, according to Lutnick, and DDT’s Wednesday announcement will assert that he willmeet them...
At the same time the growth in cyber-bullying, especially among girls, appears to be a related global phenomenon.While the gender gap in delinquency is narrowing in Australia, United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, boys continue to dominate the youth who commit crime and have a ...