PolicyWise for Children & Families

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Browsing PolicyWise for Children & Families by Subject "criminality"

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    A profile of young adult corrections involvement
    (PolicyWise for Children & Families, 2019-05-17) Werk, Christine; Twilley, Leslie; Cui, Xinjie
    Young adults with corrections involvement often have complex needs that would benefit from coordination between service providers. This report used administrative data to profile young Albertans (18 to 25 years old) with adult corrections involvement from 2005/06 to 2010/11. Analyses examined these individuals’ sociodemographic characteristics, public service use patterns, and court outcomes. This report found that (1) about 1% of young adults had corrections involvement in a given year (10,302 to 14,864 a year from 2005/06 to 2010/11), (2) young adults with corrections involvement were more likely to not complete high school as well as use social services and income supports than those without corrections involvement, (3) some court outcomes were more common than others, and (4) some court outcomes applied more to individuals with particular sociodemographic characteristics. These findings provide policy-relevant evidence that public authorities may consider as they seek to better support corrections-involved youth.  
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    A profile of youth and young adults with criminal offences
    (PolicyWise for Children & Families, 2019-07-17) Werk, Christine; Twilley, Leslie; Cui, Xinjie
    Youth with corrections involvement often have complex needs that would benefit from coordination between service providers. This report used administrative data to profile youth (12 to 25 years old) that had criminal offences between 2005/06 and 2010/11. Analyses examined these individuals’ sociodemographic characteristics and public service use patterns based on their total number of offences and offence type(s). This report found that (1) around 3% of youth and young adults in Alberta had criminal offences in a given year (22,415 to 25,135 a year from 2005/06 to 2010/11), (2) the proportion of both female offenders and offenders meeting or exceeding educational expectations increased over time, (3) the most common types of offences were administrative and property, followed by violent and other criminal, (4) youth with administrative offences were the least likely of the types of offenders to be meeting or above educational expectations, and (5) drug offenders made up the lowest percentage of total offences and have different sociodemographic characteristics and public service use patterns than other offender types. These findings provide policy-relevant evidence that public authorities may consider as they seek to better support young adult offenders. 
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    Health, mental health and social service use in high-level offenders age 18 to 25 in Alberta
    (PolicyWise for Children & Families, 2019-07-19) Lifeso, Natasha; Scott, Allison; Piatt, Carley; Zhang, Yunqi; Cui, Xinjie
    A large proportion of crime is committed by a small number of prolific offenders. This report used administrative data to compare the service use of young Albertans (18 to 25 years old) with different levels of criminal offending using data from 2005/06 to 2009/10. Analyses examined these individuals’ sociodemographic characteristics and public service use patterns based on their total number of offences. This report found that there were 26,572 individuals between the ages of 18 to 25 years in 2005/06 who were charged with at least one offence between 2005/06 and 2009/10. This report further found that higher-level offenders were more likely to be high users of healthcare and provincial social systems and to experience other challenges, such as substance abuse and homelessness, than lower-level offenders. These findings provide evidence that a coordinated and collaborative approach to service-delivery between ministries may benefit young adults heavily involved with the justice system.

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