Thematic Collection: Youth and Families
The Centre for Criminology Library holds various materials concerning youth and families within the criminal justice system from 1947 to the late 1990s.
This collection concerns juvenile delinquency, and the role of the police, the courts, and government and community interventions. It explores various stakeholder perspectives on risk factors; prevention measures; legislation and sentencing; and treatment within the criminal justice system.
For researchers, this collection provides insight into how the criminal justice system has attempted to address the relationship between family, risk factors, prevention, and intervention for youth offenders and vulnerable families.
Image Caption: Covers of three different resources from the Mental Health and Addiction collection.
Some examples of these resources include:
- "Juvenile delinquency: Practical prevention", by Ben Solomon, editor of Youth Leaders Digest (1947)
- "Report on: Canadian conference on youth, society, and the law", by Lynne C. Lapointe and Janet A. Lockington with the Canadian Criminology and Corrections Association (1967)
- "The social service role of police: Domestic crisis intervention. Monograph 1: Citizen requests for service and Vancouver police response", by Bruce R. Levens with the Social Policy and Research Department of United Way (1967)
- "Keeping kids out of court: Report of the Peel Diversion Project", coordinated by Carol Humphrey with the Social Planning Council of Peel (1977)
- "Report on youth crime", by MPPs Gerry Martiniuk, Jim Brown, and Bob Wood, for the Ontario Crime Control Commission (1998)
- "Canada's Youth Criminal Justice Act: A new law - A new approach", booklet published by the Department of Justice Canada (1999)
For a full record of the materials that the library holds pertaining to this topic, please refer to the grey literature finding aid (PDF.).