The Impact of the Youth Criminal Justice Act on Police Charging Practices with Young Persons: A Preliminary Statistical Assessment

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Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• 1.0 Background
  • 1.1 The Young Offenders Act (YOA)
  • 1.2 The Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)
  • 1.3 Research hypotheses
• 2.0 Data and Methods
  • 2.1 Data elements
  • 2.2 Research design
  • 2.3 Data limitations
• 3.0 Findings
  • 3.1 A substantial reduction in charging at the national level, and a corresponding increase in the use of extrajudicial measures
  • 3.2 No evidence of increased youth crime or net-widening at the national level
  • 3.3 Substantial interprovincial/territorial variations in charging in 2003
  • 3.4 Substantial reductions in charging in incidents involving less serious offences; small reductions in incidents involving more serious offences
• 4.0 Conclusions
• Reference
• Appendix