Chapter 15: Keeping Youth Out of Jail Quebec

Question 1

Differential Intervention

Answer 1

An approach arguing that based on the type of identification of the type of delinquency associated with the behaviors of young offenders, interventions must be tailored to meet young offenders treatment needs and the level of risk they pose to society (recidivism)

Question 2

Act for the Speedier Trial and Punishment of Juvenile Offenders

Answer 2

Avoid long imprisonments before trial proceedings

Question 3

Industrial Schools Act

Answer 3

Ensured housing and education for children under 14 years old who had been abandoned or were not properly taken care of

Question 4

Reform School Act

Answer 4

Aimed to rehabilitate offenders under 16 years old

Question 5

School Act of Youth Protection

Answer 5

Abolished reform and industrial schools
Instituted youth protection schools and the court of social welfare

Question 6

Youth Protection Act

Answer 6

This dealt with young persons charged with an offence under the Criminal Code or provincial or municipal laws
Voluntary measures could be offered to offenders as an alternative to judicial proceedings

Question 7

Extrajudicial Programs

Answer 7

Measures that are designed to hold youth responsible for their actions without the creation of a criminal record

Question 8

Boscoville

Answer 8

A unique program introduced in the 50s in Quebec that was based on a social welfare and psycho-educative model and that introduced elements in its program designed to teach delinquent youth the necessary skills, values, and attitudes that would allow them develop a sense of social responsibility

Question 9

Psycho-Educative Model

Answer 9

Developed in Quebec, this model followed the Boscoville experience and is now recognized as a profession specializing in the intervention of troubled youth