Comparison of Case Processing Under the Young Offenders Act and the First Six Months of the Youth Criminal Justice Act

Table 15: Current Guilty Finding Cases: YOA Cases (Baseline), Cases whose Proceedings Were All After the YCJA, and Cases that Began before the YCJA but Concluded after Proclamation,by Court Location (Part 1)
Any current guilty finding?	YOA sample	Proceedings after YCJA	Began before proclamation	YOA sample	Proceedings after YCJA	Began before proclamation	YOA sample	Proceedings after YCJA	Began before proclamation
	Halifax			Toronto & Scarborough			Winnipeg
	Baseline cases	First 6 months cases		Baseline cases	First 6 months cases		Baseline cases	First 6 months cases
	Column percentages
No	17.3	24.1	48.5	22.6	56.9	56.7	19.2	25.0	28.8
Yes	82.7	75.9	51.5	77.4	43.1	43.3	80.8	75.0	71.2
Total percent	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Total number	341	58	99	398	58	141	369	76	125
Chi-square, df=2, p value	40.56, p<.001			69.03, p<.001			5.38, n.s.
Chi-square, df=1, p value	1.55, n.s.			30.31, p<.001			1.30, n.s.

Table 15: Current Guilty Finding Cases: YOA Cases (Baseline), Cases whose Proceedings Were All After the YCJA, and Cases that Began before the YCJA but Concluded after Proclamation,by Court Location (Part 2)
Any current guilty finding?	YOA sample	Proceedings after YCJA	Began before proclamation	YOA sample	Proceedings after YCJA	Began before proclamation	YOA sample	Proceedings after YCJA	Began before proclamation
	Edmonton			Vancouver & Surrey			Total*
	Baseline cases	First 6 months cases		Baseline cases	First 6 months cases		Baseline cases	First 6 months cases
	Column percentages
No	13.2	28.1	22.8	5.0	32.1	42.7	18.0	32.0	41.0
Yes	86.8	71.9	77.2	95.0	67.9	57.3	82.0	68.0	59.0
Total percent	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
Total number	416	114	79	319	81	117	1524	306	444
Chi-square, df=2, p value	15.78, p<.001			Sans objet			109.25, p<.001
Chi-square, df=1, p value	14.38, p<.001			Sans objet			30.70, p<.001

Notes:

The third column in each court location contains data on cases that had their first court appearance before the YCJA but whose cases concluded under the Act. Most of the adjudication decisions were made after the Act began.
The dark shading indicates that the data are unrepresentative of the pre-legislation period.
The second last row in each table provides the chi-square results for the table as shown. The last row provides the chi-square results for no/yes guilty finding before and after the Act, excluding the cases that began before the legislation but concluded after proclamation.
No chi-square tests are provided for Vancouver and Surrey because the pre- and post-legislation data are not comparable.
*The total columns exclude Vancouver and Surrey for the reasons discussed in the text.

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