This symposium is co-organized by the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (CICC) and the Ordre professionnel des criminologues du Québec (OPCQ).
It features four presentations. This paid activity is recognized by the OPCQ as continuing education for its member criminologists.
Wednesday, November 5, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. (EST), via Zoom
This training session focuses on the role of young people within the various follow-up processes implemented in the justice system—whether in the youth sector (Youth Criminal Justice Act) or the adult system—as well as within the youth protection system. It examines how young people can genuinely participate in the decisions and intervention processes that affect them, and how practitioners can support them in this participatory approach.
The session will revisit key conceptual foundations for understanding youth accompaniment, question prevailing representations of youth within judicial and child protection contexts, and identify promising concrete practices.
More specifically, this training aims to:
Enhance understanding of the contexts in which social and penal interventions take place, and how these contexts shape young people’s relationships with the justice and youth protection systems, as well as with the interventions themselves;
Provide practitioners with tools related to youth rights and participation, offering practical ways to include young people’s voices in interventions—drawing in particular on an innovative co-created publication authored by, for, and with young people who have experienced youth protection and youth criminal justice services;
Foster dialogue around diverse intervention experiences involving young people in social and penal contexts, taking into account the specific realities of practice across different sectors.
The content of the session draws on a diversity of knowledge sources, including the testimonies of two young adults formerly involved in the youth criminal justice and protection systems, current theoretical writings relevant to the issues discussed, and applied knowledge through group reflection activities.
Marie Dumollard
marie.dumollard@umontreal.ca
Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work, Université de Montréal, since July 2022. Her research focuses on the trajectories of justice-involved youth transitioning to adulthood, interventions within the penal system (juvenile and adult justice), and public policies concerning youth and socio-penal issues.
She is currently leading several research projects on: (1) social age relations shaping the treatment of youth transitioning to adulthood; and (2) employment trajectories and support for justice-involved youth.
Dr. Dumollard completed a joint Ph.D. in Public Administration and Political Science at the École nationale d’administration publique (ENAP) and the University of Rennes 1 (France) in 2020, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship in Sociology and Criminology at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique – Centre Urbanisation Culture Société and the School of Social Work and Criminology at Université Laval. Before beginning her research career in Québec, she worked as a research officer at the Institut national de la jeunesse et de l’éducation populaire (INJEP) in France (2013–2015).
Anta Niang
anta.niang.ciussse-chus@ssss.gouv.qc.ca
Researcher at the Institut universitaire de première ligne en santé et services sociaux (IUPLSSS) of the CIUSSS de l’Estrie–CHUS in Sherbrooke and Associate Professor at the School of Social Work, Université de Sherbrooke.
Her research interests focus on the analysis of socio-judicial intervention trajectories of youth and families within constrained institutional and social contexts. Specifically, her work explores three main areas:
Professional practices in socio-judicial decision-making and intervention processes within child protection and youth justice systems;
Young people’s and families’ experiences of access to rights and their relationships with socio-judicial institutions in minority contexts;
Youth and family participation in socio-judicial intervention processes within child protection and youth justice systems, as well as participatory research methodologies.
Placed for several years within the youth protection system, Victoria has drawn on her resilience and strengths to pursue studies in helping relationships.
Now a special education teacher and a social work student, she works within youth protection services and has long been involved in projects, causes, and research focused on the realities of placed youth. Her mission is to defend young people’s rights and to inspire hope among those who have faced difficult experiences, which motivates her engagement with the Collectif Ex-Placé DPJ.
A mother of two young children under two years old and an entrepreneur, she thrives on action and compassion.
Arriving in Canada at the age of 9, Ursy was placed under youth protection from age 10 until reaching adulthood. He served as spokesperson for the Sommet des jeunes 2013 with the Bureau de consultation jeunesse, a project designed to influence Québec’s 2030 Youth Policy.
He holds a certificate and a bachelor’s degree in Social Sciences and Political Science and is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in the same field. Passionate about youth-related issues, he collaborates as a co-researcher with several university professors on topics concerning youth in care.
Ursy is a member of the Canadian Consortium on Adolescent and Youth Trauma and a co-founder and active member of the Collectif Ex-Placé DPJ.
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