To some extent we've seen a rise in young men trying to prostitute young girls, both of the age of majority and under. Really what I was concerned with, and I think this is obviously a problem throughout Canada, is what I call this underclass, the at-risk communities, which are not only a disproportionate source of crime and offenders but also the places in which much of the violent crime is concentrated.
If you do geographic studies of a city, you'll find that there are certain parts of the city that overwhelmingly have a concentration of crime and violent crime. Statistics Canada did an excellent study in Winnipeg, using social data and crime statistics and geo-mapping, that showed that something like 7% of the city generated over 30% of the crime. That's typical in many Canadian cities. I'm from Vancouver; we know where crime is concentrated.
My greatest concern is the factors that give rise to chronic offending. We know what those factors are and we know where the highest-risk communities are in major cities. What I'm advocating is a greater allocation of preventative resources to those communities. Again, not to sound too much like an academic, the research shows overwhelmingly that these preventative programs work. I run a program myself called PALS.