Justice committee  These data are only 2009; however, if it is of interest to the committee, we can provide this going back in time.

Justice committee  I didn't have them with me today, but I can provide them to the committee if necessary.

Justice committee  We work in collaboration with all of the jurisdictions across Canada in order to provide data to us. We have national data requirements, and we aim for all jurisdictions contributing data to a survey to meet those national data standards. In some jurisdictions it is simply not p

Justice committee  I will also refer you to the youth court statistics, Juristat, which was provided to you. If you look on page 32, table 8, you can see the percentage of youth cases sentenced to custody since 2002-03. We have that information from the youth court survey going back to 1990.

Justice committee  I don't have that information in front of me. I would have to provide that percentage or proportion of the population to the committee afterwards.

Justice committee  I wouldn't be able to comment on that without the information in front of me. As we do show the information by rate per hundred thousand population, we could look at the population trends for the 12- to 17-year-olds over time, but we could also look at the number of incidents t

Justice committee  I would refer you to slide 2 of the presentation, which looks at youth from 12 to 17 years old accused of police-reported crime by the type of clearance status. You will notice that it shows the rate per 100,000 youth in Canada from 1999 through to 2009. The reason we include a r

Justice committee  I will refer you to slide 3 for that, which breaks down the statistics for 2009. “Youth cleared” is looking at verbal warnings, written cautions, referral to community programs, referral to extrajudicial sanctions programs, and other means. “Other means” would include such things

Justice committee  What you are seeing here is the youth accused of a police-reported crime. If you would like to look at the youth police-reported crime rate, I would refer you to slide 4, which looks at the total of the non-violent crime and the violent crime, at the rate per 100,000 youths in Ca

Justice committee  What we can say is the youth crime rate over time has been dropping as a result of the changes in the non-violent crime, as seven out of ten crimes of which youth are accused in Canada are non-violent offences.

Justice committee  That report is our annual Juristat on police-reported crime in Canada. There is a section that talks about police-reported crime in general, police-reported crime for adults, and police-reported crimed for youth. So I would refer you...throughout the article there are references

Justice committee  Since the introduction of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, there has been a 23% decline in cases completed in youth court in Canada.

Justice committee  The violent crime is the red line. It has remained relatively stable in Canada since 1999.

Justice committee  That is all youth crime that came to the attention of the courts. So it is youth crime where an individual was accused and moved into the court system, and in 2008-09—that one fiscal year—nearly half of cases with custody and supervision had terms of one month or less.

Justice committee  Could you let us know the table number you're referring to?