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Article: The sentencing of aboriginal and non-aboriginal youth under the Young Offenders Act: a multivariate analysis.(Canada)
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- Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Article date:
- July 1, 2005
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Introduction
Recent research from the Department of Justice Canada has indicated that Aboriginal youth in Canada were incarcerated at a rate 8 times that of non-Aboriginal youth (Latimer and Foss 2004). The problem was particularly acute in northern and central Canada. In Saskatchewan, for example, Aboriginal youth were 30 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Aboriginal youth, and in the Yukon, Aboriginal youth were 18 times more likely to be incarcerated than non-Aboriginal youth.
Roberts and Melchers (2003) have noted that the problem of Aboriginal over-representation in the criminal justice system in Canada has been recognized in all ...