Does our current system for dealing with young offenders -- which focuses on punishment -- work? Not according to the authors of this compelling and thought-provoking book. It simply ensures that we jail more youth than any other...
Juvenile justice, Administration of
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Author:Green, Ross Gordon, Healy, KearneySummary: -
Author:Deen, NatashaSummary:Javvan is on probation and struggling to stay out of trouble. Finding a job is even harder.
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Author:Vandergoot, MarySummary:Canada has a 100-year history of using the criminal justice system to address social problems of youth in society. Has this approach worked? Not according to clinical psychologist Mary Vandergoot. In fact, this approach has ignored the...
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Author:Sangster, JoanSummary:Are we witnessing a moral panic over youth crime or a spate of child-blaming, driven by the politics of law and order? Sangster traces the history of young women and crime and in so doing punctures dozens of myths surrounding these...
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Author:Bernstein, NellSummary:When teenagers scuffle during a basketball game, they are typically benched. But when Will got into it on the court, he and his rival were sprayed in the face at close range by a chemical similar to Mace, denied a shower for twenty-four...
