Young offender law resources

o   * Bala et al., Young Offenders Service (looseleaf)

o   Bala & Anand, Youth Criminal Justice Law, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2009) 

o   * Bloomenfeld et al., Annotated Youth Criminal Justice Act Service (Markham: Butterworths, looseleaf)

o   Davis-Barron, S., Canadian youth & the criminal law: one hundred years of youth justice legislation in Canada (Markham: LexisNexis, 2009)

o   Doob & Cisaroni, Responding to Youth Crime in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)

o   Doyle, Farrell & Sheppard, For the Record: the Youth Criminal Justice Act: a New Law for Canadian Youth: a New Collaborative Approach, 2nd ed. (St.John's, Nfld: Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland, 2003)

o   Green, Gordon & Healy, Tough on Kids: Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2003)

o   Halsbury’s laws of Canada, Youth Justice (Markham: LexisNexis , 2006)

o   * Harris, P., Youth Criminal Justice Act Manual (Aurora: Canada Law Book, looseleaf)

o   Harris, P., Young Offenders Act Manual (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 2002)

o   Harvey & Dauns, Sexual Offences Against Children and the Criminal Process, 2nd ed. (Markham: Butterworths, 2001)

o   Kelly &Totten, When children kill: a social psychological study of youth homicide(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002)

o   Mann, R., Juvenile Crime and Delinquency: A Turn of the Century Reader (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000)

o   Maxim & Whitehead, Youth in Conflict With the Law, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Nelson, 2004)

o   Olivo, Cotter, Bromwich, Youth and the Law: New Approaches to Criminal Justice and Child Protection, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2007)

o   Platt, Young Offenders Law in Canada, 2nd ed. (Markham: Butterworths, 1995)

o   Scott, S., Defending Young Offender Cases (Toronto: Carswell, 1997)

o   Tustin & Lutes, A Guide to the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Markham: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2010)

o   Vandergoot, M., Justice for young offenders: their needs, our responses (Saskatoon: Purich Pub., 2006)

 

o   Junger-Tas & Decker, International Handbook of Juvenile Justice (Dodrecht: Springer, 2006)

 

o   Scott & Steinberg, Rethinking juvenile justice (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008)

 

o   Carrington & Pereira, Offending youth: sex, crime and justice (Sydney: Federation Press, 2009)

 

Provincial Court of British Columbia, Criminal and Youth Matters Useful Links

 

The People's Law School. Consequences of a Youth Record

http://publiclegaled.bc.ca/snapfiles/consequences3.pdf   

 

Canadian Bar Association: Young Offenders

 

YCJA: Youth Criminal Justice Act

http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/public/ycja/pocket-guide.pdf   

 

British Columbia. Ministry of the Attorney General. Youth Court Justice...And You

http://www.ag.gov.bc.ca/courts/criminal/info/youth_court.htm   

 

University of Alberta. Youth Criminal Justice Act FAQs

http://www.law-faqs.org/nat/ycja.htm   

 

British Columbia. Ministry of Children and Family Development. Youth Justice

http://www.mcf.gov.bc.ca/youth_justice/index.htm    

 

University of British Columbia Legal Aid Manual: Youth Justice

 

Justice for Children and Youth

 

New South Wales. Law Reform Commission, Young Offenders (Sydney: The Commission, 2005).