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Article: The sentencing of aboriginal and non-Aboriginal youth: understanding local variation.(Canada)
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- Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
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Introduction
A recent article in this journal (Latimer and Foss 2005) examines an important question: whether, in the dying days of the Young Offenders Act (YOA), Aboriginal youth were being sentenced differently from non-Aboriginal youth. Using data collected by the Department of Justice Canada in five Canadian cities (Halifax, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Vancouver/Surrey), Jeff Latimer and Laura Casey Foss compared the treatment of Aboriginal youth to that of non-Aboriginal youth on three measures: (1) the likelihood that a young person found guilty in youth court would receive a custodial sentence; (2) the likelihood that a youth given a custodial ...