1. What is the YCJA?
The YCJA is the Youth Criminal Justice Act that has been in Canada since 2003. It gives specific rights and different situational trials and sentences to people under 18. The reason is to focus more on rehabilitation for young criminal offenders, instead of ptting them in an adult jail which only teaches them how to be a better criminal
.2. Explain the new "balance" in the act.
Some of the changes with this act have lowered the age from 16 to 14 for youth offenders, and only send the youth offenders to adult court if they are repeat offenders. The media cannot publish the name or pictures of young offenders in the paper or the news. It focus's more on the rehabilitation of the young peoples, so that they can make a new lifestyle that is not related to a criminal life. Giving them a second chance, instead of sending them to adult prison where they will just get worse.
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