CC200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Juvenile Delinquency, Young Offenders Act, Homicide
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Concept: a general or abstract term that refers to a class or group of more specific terms: ex. crime refers to any number of specific behaviour. The concept young offender has not been defined in a consistent manner. In 1984, the yoa did not apply to 16- and 17-year-olds (only applied to 12-15 year-olds), however this changed in 1986. What police statistics tell us about youth crime: ucr statistics indicate that the number of youth charged with criminal code offences has both increased and decreased on a year-to-year basis from 1986- 2008, and with the exception of increases in 2000-2001 and 2007, has been on the decline since 1992: the rate of youth cleared remained fairly consistent throughout the period of the. Yoa and actually began its rise in 2000 began to decline again in 2007 (look at the tables for statistics: youth statistics are no longer separated by charged and cleared otherwise (since.
