Youth Criminal Justice Policy in Canada [electronic resource] : A Critical Introduction /
Alvi, Shahid.author.
In the past ten years, much has changed in terms of youth justice policies in Canada as well as in the way Canadian society has evolved. Canada has a new Act governing youth crime, and there are indications that the Act will be revised again to make it "tougher" on youth in conflict with the law, a development reflecting what many scholars are calling the "punitive turn" in youth justice policies in Canada and elsewhere. At the same time, Canadian child poverty rates (which are strongly correlated with criminality) have remained high, despite a commitment, made by governments in 1989 to eradicate the problem by the year 2000. Immigration patterns have changed, and unemployment rates for young Canadians remain almost twice as high as those for adults. In this volume, Youth Criminal Justice Policy in Canada: A Critical Introduction, the author addresses these and other developments in relation to youth crime in Canada from a critical criminological perspective.
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Youth Criminal JusticePolicy in Canada; Introduction; References; Contents; 1 The Criminalization and Control of Youth in Canada: A History; Abstract; Defining Youth; Controlling Young People in Canada: The Pre-legal Era; The Era of the Juvenile Delinquent; The Young Offenders Act; The Youth Criminal Justice Act; Box 1.1. Youth Crime Law is History: New Legislation will be Tougher on Violent Young Offenders; References; 2 Young People in Contemporary Canada; Abstract; Capitalism, Late Modernity and Youth; The Economic Status of Youth and Their Families; ; Education; Health; References
3 The Nature of Youth CrimeAbstract; The Advantages and Dangers of Statistics; Counting Crime; Official Data; Victimization Surveys; Self-Report Studies; Data from Observations; Other Problems with Data on Youth Crime; Box 3.1. In this Robbery, Race was not Relevant; The Magnitude and Nature of Youth Crime; Box 3.2: Public Sector Cuts: Rise in Youth Crime Feared as Key Teams are Reduced; Gender; Race/Ethnicity and Youth Crime; Box 3.3: Excerpted from Report of the Commission on Systemic Racism in the Ontario Criminal Justice System (1995), Chap. 6; Class and Youth Crime; Gangs
Victims of Youth CrimeReferences; 4 From Youth Justice to Social Justice; Abstract; If It Doesn't Work, Do It Again; The Potential of Extrajudicial Measures; Youth Justice Committees; Sentencing Circles and Reintegrative Shaming; From Youth Justice to Social Justice; Tailoring Policies to Reflect Realities; Better Support for Families and Children; Rethinking Criminal Justice Spending; Reducing Poverty and Inequality; References
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In the past ten years, much has changed in terms of youth justice policies in Canada as well as in the way Canadian society has evolved. Canada has a new Act governing youth crime, and there are indications that the Act will be revised again to make it "tougher" on youth in conflict with the law, a development reflecting what many scholars are calling the "punitive turn" in youth justice policies in Canada and elsewhere. At the same time, Canadian child poverty rates (which are strongly correlated with criminality) have remained high, despite a commitment, made by governments in 1989 to eradicate the problem by the year 2000. Immigration patterns have changed, and unemployment rates for young Canadians remain almost twice as high as those for adults. In this volume, Youth Criminal Justice Policy in Canada: A Critical Introduction, the author addresses these and other developments in relation to youth crime in Canada from a critical criminological perspective.
Criminology.
Human geography.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
Human Geography.
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