Youth Violence

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to end their spree of violence A recent spate of youth violence brawls group assaults and the murder of two young people has erupted in recent weeks in Canada s largest city Are these incidents some horrible coincidence or do they reflect a growing trend toward group violence among Canadian teens According to the Canadian Centre for Justice Studies after a

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18 KB Youth Violence Taskforce members The members of the Youth Violence Taskforce are

ROOTS OF YOUTH VIOLENCE DR ALVIN CURLING

TRANSCRIPT VIDEO INTERVIEW with Dr Alvin Curling co author of The Roots of Youth Violence MISSISSAUGAWATCH I have some questions regarding quot The Roots of Youth Violence quot DR ALVIN CURLING Yes MISSISSAUGAWATCH and one of the quesitons I have is When your team worked on quot The Roots of Youth Violence quot from the initial drafting to the final product did you do any research using Freedom of Information and specifically filing Freedom of Information into Schools Municipalities and even Police DR ALVIN CURLING Well most of the research that we have done which we contracted Scott Beaudry sp a renowned criminologist to do that We gathered all the documents that were public already MISSISSAUGAWATCH Yeah DR ALVIN CURLING About Freedom of Information I don t think inaudible most of it unnecessary they were all public documents out there We just pulled all that together and then present it MISSISSAUGAWATCH OK the next question Are you aware that the 2001 Municipal Act doesn t require Ontario municipalities to have a public complaints process in place DR ALVIN CURLING Don t have to have a what MISSISSAUGAWATCH They don t The 2001 Municipal Act doesn t require municipalities to have a public complaints system in place DR ALVIN CURLING Well a MISSISSAUGAWATCH which means that there s no framework for accountability within municipalities DR ALVIN CURLING The municipalities do have accountabality of course But I presume that in their own way they do But I m not quite familiar with what it hasn t got and what it has MISSISSAUGAWATCH Well for example The City of Mississauga in the 30 years never had a public complaints system let alone a formal one Video shifts to the MAY 21 2008 MISSISSAUGA COUNCIL MEETING MISSISSAUGA COUNCILLOR PAT MULLIN But I guess that I m looking for some direction from possibly Staff if there is something that we could put in place which would be I guess a complaint procedure against Staff And maybe someone

PEEL YOUTH VIOLENCE PREVENTION COMMITTEE

Peel youth violence prevention committee education policy and programs

MUNICIPALITIES A ROOT OF YOUTH VIOLENCE

quot Although it has become common knowledge that those who are pushed out or who drop out of high school are vulnerable to economic and social insecurity and that this can often lead them into situations of violence there has been a shortage of critical assessment of all the institutions implicated in this situation quot p 118 McMurtry Curling Report on the Roots of Youth Violence quot Volume 3 COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVES REPORT quot