In the past ten years, much has changed in terms of youth
justice policies in Canada as well as in the way Canadian society
has evolved.
Canada has a new Act governing youth crime, and there are
indications that the Act will be revised again to make it "tougher"
on youth in conflict with the law, a development reflecting what
many scholars are calling the "punitive turn" in youth justice
policies in Canada and elsewhere. At the same time, Canadian child
poverty rates (which are strongly correlated with criminality) have
remained high, despite a commitment, made by governments in 1989 to
eradicate the problem by the year 2000. Immigration patterns have
changed, and unemployment rates for young Canadians remain almost
twice as high as those for adults. In this brief volume, Youth
Criminal Justice Policy in Canada: A Critical Introduction, Dr.
Shahid Alvi will address these and other developments in relation
to youth crime in Canada from a critical criminological
perspective.
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