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Youth crime down: Stats Can
National Post, Global TV network, various Canwest newspapers, CanWest News Service, Meagan Fitzpatrick, Wednesday, September 20, 2006
OTTAWA - For the second year in a row, the number of youths aged 12 to 17 behind bars or on probation has gone down, according to an analysis from Statistics Canada.
The report suggests that the implementation of the Youth Criminal Justice Act in 2003 is having an effect in driving the numbers down.
In 2004 to 2005, an average of 1,300 young people in sentenced custody on any given day, down about 16 per cent from 2003 to 2004 and down 50 per cent since the YCJA went into effect. About 700 of these individuals were in secure custody, down 14 per cent, while 600 were in open custody, a 20 per cent drop.
The Yukon and Nunavut were the only parts of the country where the average number of youth in sentenced custody went up, all other jurisdictions saw a decline.
The average number of youth on probation is also on its way down, seeing a drop of almost 25 per cent in 2004 to 2005 from the previous year to 21,200 people. Compared to the 2002 to 2003 figures - before the YCJA was implemented - the number has dropped by almost one-third.
The incarceration rate in 2004 to 2005 slid 12 per cent from the previous year and was at 8.3 per 10,000 youth.
The YCJA introduced a number of new community sentences, including a deferred custody and supervision order and a community portion of a custody and supervision order. Those provisions allow for a young person to serve a custody sentence in the community under a number of strict conditions and is comparable to a conditional sentence for adults. Last year, about 450 young people on average were on deferred custody and supervision, up 87 per cent from the previous year.
One of the objectives of the YCJA is to deal with less serious cases more effectively outside of the court process. The Act also requires judges to inquire whether an adult is available to take care of a young person awaiting trial instead of the youth waiting in detention. Statistics Canada says the number of young people held on remand while awaiting trial or sentencing declined five per cent to about 800 on any given day last year.
CanWest News Service 2006