[Canada] Youth court statistics 2005/2006 / Statistics Canada, 23 October 2007
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/071023/d071023f.htm
"Judges are seeing fewer young people aged 12 to 17 in their courtrooms, and fewer are being sent to custody, since the enactment of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) in April 2003."