The YCJA is ineffective because of the following three components:It put public safety at risk,it is too lienent and it provides a high chance for youth to reoffend. Although YCJA is an ineffective law ,some people insist that YCJA is effective.

The Youth Justice system is fair and equitable; it uses a rehabilitative method that helps reintegrate youth back into society as normal functioning citizens. This way can steer them clear from the life of crime and promote the long term protection of the society.

Since that high watermark the number of children dealt with by the youth justice system has reduced spectacularly, with consistent year-on-year falls. The number of children cautioned or convicted in 2015 was 47,000 – down 79% since 2007.

Cons:

• Rehabilitative custody not well utilized: Intensive rehabilitative custody and supervision of punishment and sentencing given to the youth have not been fully utilized.
• Lenient to youths: The youth criminal justice act is very lenient to the youth making it difficult to reduce youth crimes.

The Youth Justice system is fair and equitable; it uses a rehabilitative method that helps reintegrate youth back into society as normal functioning citizens.

How does the YCJA deal with youth crime? The YCJA is intended to protect the public by holding youth accountable, by preventing crime and by rehabilitating and reintegrating youth in the community. The Act further supports the prevention of crime by referring youth to community programs.

Youth justice proceedings require a recognition that young persons have rights and freedoms in their own right and special guarantees of these rights and freedoms; courtesy, compassion and respect for victims; the opportunity for victims to be informed and to participate; and that parents be informed and encouraged to …

38 (1) The purpose of sentencing under section 42 (youth sentences) is to hold a young person accountable for an offence through the imposition of just sanctions that have meaningful consequences for the young person and that promote his or her rehabilitation and reintegration into society, thereby contributing to the …

What additional information may a judge request during the sentencing process?

• The presence or absence of a criminal record.
• The lifestyle of the offender.
• Attitude, history and circumstances of the offender.
• The impact on the victim.
• The gravity of the offence.
• The circumstances concerning the commission of the offence.

Juvenile arrests for property crime (burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, forgery, and arson) accounted for about 57 percent of all juvenile felony arrests in 1993 and arrests for violent crime (homicide, rape, robbery, assault, and kidnapping) accounted for almost 24 percent of all juvenile arrests.

They have likely committed more serious crimes, their background may be more disadvantaged, and as a result their underlying propensity to drop out of school and commit a crime in the future may be higher than that of juveniles who were not committed.

Mirroring the decline in overall California crime rates, juvenile arrests have fallen to a multi-year low, going from 232,000 felony juvenile arrests of youth age 10-17 in 2006, to 86,000 in 2014. These statistics represent a 54% decline.

Juvenile Arrest Rate Trends. The juvenile murder arrest rate reached its lowest level in 2012, 84% below the 1993 peak; since 2012, the rate increased 27% through 2018 (from 2.2 to 2.7 per 100,000 youth), then declined 6% (to 2.6) by 2019.

One reason for the decline may be that there’s more attention being paid to child welfare before a boy or girl ends up in the system compared to previous decades, Sickmund said. And the increased cost of juvenile detention has led states to consider alternatives to traditional punishment, she said.

During a single year, an estimated 2.1 million youth under the age of 18 are arrested in the United States. Though overall rates have been declining over the past years, approximately 1.7 million delinquency cases are disposed in juvenile courts annually.