Continental Divide: The Values and Institutions of the United States and Canada.

Desbiens, Albert

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“…Second, these reports placed Canada's youth custody rate (and resort to court) within a broader context. If one is to believe Lipset's claim (Lipset : 14) that “[s]ince the 18th century, most Canadians have felt that there is something not quite right with what the United States came to be”, any implication that Canadian policies and practices were similar to (or worse than) those of our closest neighbor would be seen as a call to action, legitimizing rectification.…”

Section: Part Ii—the Politics Of Change: Canadian Youth Justice (1993...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Will to Change: Lessons from Canada's Successful Decarceration of Youth

Webster¹,

Sprott²,

Doob³

2019

Law Soc Rev

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In 1997, Canada's youth custodial facilities held 3825 sentenced youths. Eighteen years later, this number was 527—an 86 percent reduction. Overall youth imprisonment (sentenced + pretrial detention) decreased by approximately 73 percent. This paper uses Canada's successful decarceration of youths to understand what might be learned about decarceration more broadly. By examining the reforms that transpired in Canada's treatment of young offenders since the 1960s and the political/cultural shifts that occurred since the 1990s, we demonstrate that the decline resulted from changes occurring in various parts of the system. Finally, we contrast this decarceration with more than 60 years of relative stability of Canadian adult imprisonment rates as well as Canada's failure to substantially decrease youth pretrial detention in order to identify those factors seemingly necessary to reduce imprisonment more generally.

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Section: Part Ii—the Politics Of Change: Canadian Youth Justice (1993...mentioning

confidence: 99%