A profile of youth and young adults with criminal offences
Date
2019-07-17
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Publisher
PolicyWise for Children & Families
Abstract
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.
Description
This report used administrative data to profile youth (12 to 25 years old) that had criminal offences between 2005/06 and 2010/11.
Keywords
corrections, criminality, youth, big data, longitudinal, social services, health services, administrative data, data linkage
Citation
Child and Youth Data Laboratory. (2016). A profile of youth and young adults with criminal offences. Edmonton, AB: PolicyWise for Children & Families.