Black Youth and the Criminal Justice System: Summary Report of an Engagement Process in Canada
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- Background and Context
- Overview of the Engagement Process
- Limitations
- Engagement Findings
- Circumstances that Contribute to Black Youth Coming into Contact with the Youth Criminal Justice System
- Over-policing
- Committing Criminal Offences: Survival and Identity
- Experiences Navigating through the Criminal Justice System
- Priority Areas for Action and Promising Programs, Services, and Approaches
- Addressing low-income concentration, survival-motivated crime, and community prevention
- Addressing the needs of newcomers
- Addressing education, schooling, and the school-to-prison pipeline
- Addressing over-policing, under-policing, and community safety
- Addressing differential outcomes in the courts, ineffective legal representation, and legislation
- Addressing anti-Black racism in custody and detention
- Addressing failures in release, community reintegration, and recidivism
- Conclusion
- Annex 1: Stages of the Criminal Justice System
- References
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