Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Project Turnaround was a private youth detention centre for male young offenders between 16 and 18 years of age that operated from 1997 to 2004 in Hillsdale, Ontario, Canada. The facility held up to 32 high-risk youths at a time who were serving sentences for crimes such as assault , robbery , forcible confinement, escape , and weapons charges ...
While comparing the Youth Offenders Act to the Youth Criminal Justice Act, the former focuses more on a youth's choice to retain counsel and the role of lawyers in the criminal justice system. In terms of the JDA, more focus was placed on a youth being viewed as a misguided individual who required guidance from the courts.
The demands by the Canadian public for changes for the better in dealing with youth crime, particularly in the wake of the beating and attempted murder in 1999 of then-15-year-old Jonathan Wambach in Newmarket, Ontario, by a gang of teenagers, [2] led to the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act to replace the Young Offenders Act in ...
PURE Academy has a partnership to drop youth crime. Here's how changing a kid's environment could help one of the Memphis' fastest-growing concerns.
Today, as a master’s degree-holding, dual-certified teen life coach, I help kids build their own ladder up and out of the issues that I believe Katherine, Cornelius, and myself were locked up for.
From 2014 to 2022, Canada's violent crime rate rose by 43.8% to 434 with 1 violent crime per 100,000 people. In the U.S, the increase was 5.3% to 380 with 7 per 100,000 people. Property crimes in Canada stood at a rate of 2,491 per 100,000 people in 2022, a 7.0% increase since 2014, while U.S. property crimes fell by 24.1%.
Despite the success of Team USA at this year’s Olympics, mental health concerns are more prevalent than ever for America’s athletes, from the elite level to young developing athletes.
The John Howard Society of Canada is a Canadian non-profit organization that seeks to develop understanding and effective responses to the problem of crime and prison reform. It is named after John Howard, a philanthropist and early English prison reformer. The society works with adults, children, and youths to help rebuild their lives.