The rehabilitation of young offenders and their reintegration into society are important goals
of the juvenile justice system. An empirically supported model of service delivery attending …

The Youth Criminal Justice Act (2003) was enacted with the intent of decreasing the use of
courts and restricting the use of custody for adolescent offenders, while improving the …

Despite very diverse approaches towards punishing crime, all Western jurisdictions punish
repeat offenders more harshly (a practice known as the recidivist sentencing premium). For …

Increasingly, risk assessments are being adopted throughout the criminal justice system in
Canada, and they are playing a significant role in the preparation of pre-sentence reports …

Although youth probation (in some countries described as youth justice or youth offending
work) has been widely discussed in older and more recent criminological literature, less …

Over-representation of visible minority youth in youth prisons is evident in most advanced
industrial and liberal democratic countries. In Canada, federal and provincial governments …

In 1997, Canada's youth custodial facilities held 3825 sentenced youths. Eighteen years
later, this number was 527—an 86 percent reduction. Overall youth imprisonment …

Bail conditions are placed on youths in an effort to ensure they return to court and to reduce
danger to the public by constraining the behaviour of the accused in the community. These …

Statutory reforms of the juvenile justice system came to Canada in 2003 when the Youth
Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) became law. This article reviews the principal sentencing …

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the Youth Criminal Justice Act afford
young people the same due process rights given to adults, including the right to legal …