Supporting Youth in the Justice System

OPCQ Symposium

This symposium is co-organized by the International Centre for Comparative Criminology and the Professional Order of Criminologists of Quebec, and will feature three presentations.

This paid event is accredited by the OPCQ as continuing education for its members.

Wednesday, November 5, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., on Zoom.

Registration required.

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Abstract:

This training focuses on intervention with young people in the criminal justice system. More specifically, it seeks to examine and reflect on the role of youth within the supervision processes implemented in both the juvenile and adult justice systems, particularly through the lens of participation of those directly concerned in the decisions and interventions that affect them. Drawing on recent knowledge and preliminary findings from ongoing research conducted by the two trainers on issues of age, social relations of age, and youth participation, this training will provide an opportunity to revisit key concepts relevant to supporting young people in the criminal justice system, as well as to create a space for dialogue among and with judicial practitioners.

Biography:

Marie Dumollard
marie.dumollard@umontreal.ca

Marie Dumollard has been an Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work at the Université de Montréal since July 2022. Her research focuses on the trajectories of justice-involved youth during the transition to adulthood, interventions within the criminal justice system (both juvenile and adult justice), as well as youth and socio-penal public action. She is currently leading several research projects on: (1) the social relations of age at play in the treatment of young people transitioning to adulthood; and (2) the trajectories and employment support of justice-involved youth.

She completed her Ph.D. in Public Administration and Political Science through an international joint degree program between the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP, Québec) and the Université de Rennes 1 (France) in 2020. In 2022, she also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Sociology and Criminology at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, and at the School of Social Work and Criminology at Université Laval. Prior to beginning her research career in Québec, she worked as a Research Officer at the French National Institute for Youth and Popular Education (INJEP) from 2013 to 2015.

Anta Niang
anta.niang.ciussse-chus@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

Anta Niang is currently a researcher at the Institut universitaire de première ligne en santé et services sociaux (IUPLSSS) du CIUSSS de l'Estrie-CHUS de Sherbrooke and an associate professor at the Université de Sherbrooke's School of Social Work. Her interests and research focus primarily on analysing the socio-judicial intervention pathways of youths and families in constrained institutional and social contexts. More specifically, her research program focuses on 3 main areas: 1 / the professional practices in the context of socio-judicial decision-making and intervention in child protection and juvenile justice systems ; 2/ the experiences on the access to rights and the relationship with socio-judicial institutions of youth and families in minority contexts; 3/ the participation of youth and their families in the socio-judicial intervention process in child protection and juvenile justice systems, and the participatory research methods.

(Additional speaker to be confirmed)