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Fix Youth Crime

7 Recommendations

The result of the Nunn Commission was a 381-page report entitled: Spiraling out of control: Lessons learned from a boy in trouble. The limitations of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) were among the primary reasons cited for leading up to the accident. Commissioner Nunn included seven recommendations that specifically addressed those limitations. They include:

  • Lobby federal government to remove time limits for sentencing a young person to a community program like an attendance centre
  • Advocate for making public protection one of the primary goals of the federal Youth Criminal Justice Act
  • Advocate for amending the definition of violent offender in the Youth Criminal Justice Act to include conduct that could endanger public safety
  • Advocate for changing "pattern of guilt" to "pattern of offences" under the Youth Criminal Justice Act
  • Advocate for simplifying the rules around pre-trial detention under the Youth Criminal Justice Act
  • Advocate for changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act to require youth to continue court-ordered behaviour, even after a "responsible person" is no longer willing or able to provide supervision
  • Advocate for changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act to remove the need for a new bail hearing if the person previously designated to supervise the youth outside custody is no longer providing that supervision.