State of the Criminal Justice System Report: A Focus on Youth (2024)

State of the Criminal Justice System Report
A Focus on Youth (2024)

The inaugural State of the Criminal Justice System Report (2019) provided a comprehensive analysis of Canada’s criminal justice system performance across key Framework indicators. This edition of the State of the Criminal Justice System (SOCJS) report focuses on the performance of the youth criminal justice system (CJS) from 2017/2018 to 2021/2022, using the SOCJS Youth-Adapted Framework. Notably, the report explores: community safety; public awareness and confidence in the youth CJS; court operations and efficiencies; trends in the use of incarceration and community-based resolutions; and the overrepresentation of Indigenous youth and Black youth in the system.

A PDF version of the report is also available.

Download Previous Reports
Download the report

Access previous State of the Criminal Justice System Reports.

  • 2022 Report (Impact of Covid-19 on the Criminal Justice System (HTML) (PDF)
  • 2020 Report (Focus on Women) (HTML) (PDF)
  • 2019 Report (HTML) (PDF)
Explore the Dashboard
Explore the Dashboard

Explore the State of the Criminal Justice System Dashboard and see the data and other information related to the performance Canada’s criminal justice system.

Methodology
Methodology

Learn about the methods used to create the State of the Criminal Justice System performance monitoring Framework, Dashboard and Report.

Additional resources
Additional resources