Evaluation of the Youth Justice Initiative Funding Components

APPNDIX C:
Profile of Intensive Rehabilitative Custody and Supervision Cases

Most IRCS youth were male (32), though there were also some female cases (9).^[53]
The average age of IRCS youth was 16.7 years old.
Twenty cases involved Aboriginal youth; however, Aboriginal status was not recorded for 11 cases.
In 22 cases, the youth had at least one prior conviction; however, not all files contained complete information on this item.
Youth received IRCS orders for a wide range of mental diagnoses. These include conduct disorder (21), oppositional defiant disorder (6), and anti-social behaviour (5); substance abuse including poly-substance abuse disorder (5), cannabis abuse (8), alcohol abuse (2), and other substance abuse (6); attention-deficit (hyperactivity) disorder (10); anxiety (8) and depression (7); mental retardation and cognitive delays (7) or learning disorders (2); post-traumatic stress disorder; fetal alcohol spectrum disorder or alcohol-related neuro-developmental disorder (5); attachment disorder (2); and others (e.g., bipolar, adjustment disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, pyromania, social phobia) (9).
The length of IRCS sentences ranged from 240 to 3,652 days with an average sentence of 1,476 days.
The average ratio of custody to community portions of sentences was approximately 60/40, and the comparable median ratio was 63/37.

^[53] For one file, the gender could not be ascertained.