Une comparaison de la délinquance des jeunes au Canada et aux États-Unis

Abstract

La justice des mineurs Volume 32, numéro 2, automne 1999 URI : id.erudit.org/iderudit/004746ar

‘If we are tough on crime, if we punish crime, then people get the message’

“…In her analysis of youth custody rates in Canada, Jane Sprott (2001) established that relatively minor offences (theft under $5000, possession of stolen property, failure to appear and failure to comply with a disposition, minor assault, mischief/damage) accounted for 74 percent of youth court cases and, at the same time, 61 percent of cases where young offenders were sentenced to custody. Moreover, by 1997 Canada was incarcerating roughly 30.6 percent of property cases (Sprott and Snyder, 2000). These figures suggest that the bifurcation within youth justice may not be as rigid as it initially appeared.…”

“…This mentality of punishment has been disseminated to several European countries and now Canada (Newburn, 2002). That politicians, policy makers and the public alike have found American style juvenile justice programmes particularly appealing is apparent given that Canada was in direct competition with the US for the highest rates of youth imprisonment in the West (Sprott and Snyder, 2000).…”

Unsettling Youth Justice and Cultural Norms: The Youth Restorative Action Project

“…This mentality of punishment has been disseminated to several European countries, and now Canada (Newburn 2002). That politicians, policy-makers and the public alike have found American style juvenile justice programmes particularly appealing is apparent given that Canada was in direct competition with the United States for the highest rates of youth imprisonment in the West (Sprott & Snyder 2000;Hogeveen 2005b).…”

10. Privatisation et technologie

“…Dans la loi de 2001, il est maintenant présumé que des peines pour adultes seront imposées aux adolescents de 14 ans et plus coupables de crimes graves avec violence. Cette refonte a été effectuée même si le Canada est, avec les États-Unis, un des pays où les jeunes contrevenants sont incarcérés le plus fréquemment (Sprott et Snyder, 1999). Depuis la cascade d'incidents violents qui se sont produits récemment dans des écoles américaines (par exemple, en 1999, à Columbine), la méfiance de certains adultes envers les jèunes et même les enfants s'est exacerbée.…”