Exam 2: Measuring Youth Crime in Canada: An Elusive Challenge

One of the common views held in the late-nineteenth century was that juvenile delinquency was the ________.

Official statistics remain the most consistent source of measurement for youth offending.

According to official data on court dispositions, to what extent has the use of probation as a youth sentence changed since the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)?

Results of the Canadian Urbanization Victimization Study found that ________.

According to 2008-2009 Statistics Canada data, older youth are proportionately more likely to commit ________.

Since the early 1990s and into the "new" millennium, there has been an apparent shift toward greater accountability of young offenders engaged in serious offences.

Has the gender balance or ratio of youth crime changed in recent years?

Youth crime in seventeenth century New France was most likely caused by ________.

With the passing of the Young Offenders Act (YOA) in 1984, the term juvenile delinquency was replaced with young person.

Between 2014 and 2016 the crime severity index increased

Which two provinces or territories show the greatest variation from each other in the use of secure custody since the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)?

What affect has the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) had on youth court case processing times across Canada as a whole?

According to available data for the period, most of the offences committed by youth in early twentieth century Canada were ________.

What has been the trend in recorded youth property crimes in Canada over the past two decades? Provide examples from the chapter that illustrate this trend.

________ allows young offender who have committed serious, violent acts, or who are serious repeat offenders, to be detained during pre-trail detention and for courts to consider publishing the names of some young criminals.

The term youth at risk refers to ________.

J.J. Kelso played only a minor role in establishing Ontario's first juvenile court system.

What are the main differences between Self Report Studies and Victimization Studies?

According to victimization data collected through the Canadian General Social Survey, about 80 per cent of youth aged 15 to 17 who were victimized do did not report the incident to police.

Quebec and Ontario, which have the highest youth crime rates, had custody rates of 14.1 per cent and 13.5 per cent respectively in 2014-2015.