More care less court : Plus d'aide, moins de poursuites

Separate Facilities for Youth and Adults in the Criminal Justice System The Office of the Child and Youth Advocate has witnessed very significant improvements in the functioning of New Brunswick’s youth detention and secure custody facility (the New Brunswick Youth Centre). [...] Youth sentenced to open custody being located at the secure detention and custody facility does not accord with the purposes of the Youth Criminal Justice Act or with the Convention on the Rights of the Child, and it is a terrible practice. [...] Government should develop open custody options in accordance with the guiding principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the principles of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. [...] We began with a collaborative search for solutions, across government Departments, looking together at best practices in the administration of youth criminal justice across the country and around the globe, and I was pleased last summer to be invited to sit as a member of the provincial Crime Prevention Round-table, to bring the voice of New Brunswick youth and the contributions of my Office to th [...] The second part of the report focuses in greater detail on the provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act and what New Brunswick could do to give better effect to each of its sections: by establishing Youth Justice Committees, by increasing the use of judicial conferencing, by developing better safeguards against a rush to prosecution, and by giving young people the benefit of the graduated resp