The 2008 National Justice Survey: The Youth Justice System in Canada and the Youth Criminal Justice Act
Figure 9: Agreement with Statements about Youth Sentencing Principles
Long description for Figure 9:
Figure 9: Agreement with statements about youth sentencing principles. This is a horizontal stacked bar chart that illustrates agreement with statements about youth sentencing principles. The Y-axis is divided into 7 categories. The Y-axis lists the following categories from top to bottom:
- youth offenders should be held less accountable than adults because of their greater dependency and reduced maturity;
- judges should provide culturally appropriate sentencing for Aboriginal youth by first considering a sentence that does not involve jail;
- putting youth in jail is an effective method of correcting behaviour;
- the youth’s circumstances should be taken into consideration at sentencing;
- jail should only be used for violent youth and repeat offenders;
- protecting society from crime should be the focus of the youth justice system;
- rehabilitation is an important goal of the youth justice system.
Among respondents, agreement was distributed as follows:
- youth offenders should be held less accountable than adults because of their greater dependency and reduced maturity – strongly agree 5%, agree 27%, disagree 42% and strongly disagree 26%;
- judges should provide culturally appropriate sentencing for Aboriginal youth by first considering a sentence that does not involve jail – strongly agree 9%, agree 29%, disagree 39% and strongly disagree 23%;
- putting youth in jail is an effective method of correcting behaviour – strongly agree 8%, agree 40%, disagree 40% and strongly disagree 12%;
- the youth’s circumstances should be taken into consideration at sentencing – strongly agree 16%, agree 56%, disagree 22% and strongly disagree 7%;
- jail should only be used for violent youth and repeat offenders – strongly agree 23%, agree 48%, disagree 22% and strongly disagree 7%;
- protecting society from crime should be the focus of the youth justice system – strongly agree 28%, agree 54%, disagree 15% and strongly disagree 3%;
- rehabilitation is an important goal of the youth justice system – strongly agree 42%, agree 51%, disagree 5% and strongly disagree 2%.
The X-axis is measured in percentages in increments of 10 from 0 to 100.
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