Juvenile criminal law Books

Canvassing the socio-legal context for youth detention in Australia with a focus on international human rights law and legal frameworks within Australian states and territories, this book examines the recurring children's rights-violations of recent...

This book provides an overview of theories of juvenile delinquency. Each chapter describes a particular theory by telling the tale of a delinquent youth and thoroughly reviewing the theories and research designed to explain the youth's delinquent...

A collection of scholarly articles and research papers on juvenile delinquency, including studies on its causes, prevention, and treatment.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of...

Studies have shown that arts-based programming in juvenile detention settings can be an effective tool in rehabilitating and reintegrating youth who have come into contact with the juvenile justice system. Implementing a Gender-Based Arts Program for...

Increasingly, teachers, youth workers, and social workers are being called on to 'build resilience to radicalisation'. But, what does this actually mean? What is resilience to radicalisation, how can it be built, and whose role is it?Drawing on an...

Der 32. Deutsche Jugendgerichtstag fand vom 15. bis 18.09.2023 unter dem Titel "Recht auf Jugend - 100 Jahre Jugendgerichtsgesetz" statt. An der Veranstaltung nahmen rund 650 Personen aus allen Berufsgruppen teil, die am Jugendstrafverfahren beteiligt...

This sample U-1 Victim of Crime Visa Application prepared by an Immigration Lawyer with over 25 years of experience. You will get the hard copy as well as an thumbdrive with the loaded PDF. Included is a persuasive cover letter meeting all of the legal...

In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She receives a rifle for Christmas and a month...

Assessment and Classification of Juvenile Offenders: A Treatment Manual for Criminal Justice Practitioners guides current and aspiring criminal justice professionals through the process of assessing, classifying, and correcting delinquent and...

In this complex world of today, with so many "at risk" tweens and teens grappling with issues, problems and crises, can a fresh perspective on their trials and tribulations help to turn them around?Shelves and shelves of books have been written about...

Educational Planning of Court-Involved Youth provides a framework for alleviating chronic barriers for youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. This guide combines best-practice recommendations from national research with direct service...

The S Nonimmigrant Visa allows Foreign Nationals with critical information on criminal or terrorist organizations to come to the U.S. to provide this critical information to law enforcement. There are also different classifications of the S Visa: The S-5...

Restorative Justice and Juvenile Justice SystemsRestorative Justice and Juvenile Justice Systems by Dr. Maxwell Shimba is a comprehensive exploration of the role of restorative practices in transforming how juvenile offenders are treated within the...

Increasing the understanding of the impact that someone's behaviour has on another person's is becoming an increasingly important tool for practitioners who attempt to reduce both reoffending and other general problematic behaviours. Its...

Few issues attract greater concern and censure than those that surround youth 'gangs'. Comprising a series of essays from leading national and international researchers, this book subjects such claims to rigorous critical scrutiny. It provides a...

Over the past few years, opposition to the privatisation in public services in the United Kingdom and elsewhere has grown, especially in areas related to criminal justice. Privatisation has existed within the British criminal justice system at least...

The challenging story of a young person’s progress through care, prison and social rejection to youth justice specialist. It charts failures to connect with and modify the author’s chaotic early life moving from place to place, school to...

The juvenile justice system in the United States has become a detrimental rather than a remedial experience, one that often reinforces youths' defiance of authority. Trying juveniles as adults, overcrowding juvenile detention facilities, and other...

In "Breaking the Blue Line: One Kid's Fight for Freedom", Sam Orlando shares his harrowing journey of fighting false charges and overcoming the odds in a flawed justice system. As a young man on the cusp of starting college, Sam's world is turned...

The Education of Anthony Bryant tells the story of an eighteen-year-old who makes a tragic mistake and is given a thirty year to life sentence, after serving as the getaway driver in a robbery resulting in a store owner's death. Once Bryant learns he'll...

Históricamente el manejo de adolescentes infractores ha sido un desafío. Por esta razón este artículo académico pretende exponer como la Justicia Juvenil Restaurativa se ha convertido en una alternativa valiosa para abordar esta problemática. Para...

Forward by Robert M. Ekes, M.AWhen we hear of an atrocity such as a mass murder in a mall, or a theater, or of someone's murderous rampage against children in a school it affects us all. We recoil in shock, disbelief, horror, and with many questions. ...

Without strong proof, policy advocates along with some scholars have causally linked declines in juvenile offending and incarceration with evidence-based and rehabilitation-oriented policy reform. Such studies have called for a shift back to...

The historical context of colonisation situates the analysis in Children, Care and Crime of the involvement of children with care experience in the criminal justice system in an Australian jurisdiction focusing on residential care, policing, the...

This research monograph provides a comparative analysis of juvenile court outcomes, exploring the influence of contextual factors on juvenile punishment across systems and communities. In doing so, it investigates whether, how, and to what extent...

While there is extensive research published concerning juvenile justice and sentencing, most of the research focuses on individual and extra-legal factors, such as age, race, and gender, with scant attention paid to the impact of macro-level factors...

Duncan Gaswaga, a former judge of the Seychelles Supreme Court who has presided over numerous piracy trials, asked the following question: "What is a judge to do when a bearded piracy suspect facing justice asserts that he is fourteen?" This book...

Reflections on Life in Ghettos, Camps and Prisons explores the relationship between ghettos, camps, places of detention and prisons with a focus on those people who are confined, encamped, imprisoned, detained, stuck, or forcibly removed through the lens...

This book takes a comprehensive, analytic approach to understanding Juvenile Risk and Needs Assessment (JRNA), covering elements relevant to how the practice affects youths' cases and the juvenile justice system. The work draws on both analysis of the...

This book reflects multidisciplinary and cross-jurisdictional analysis of issues surrounding Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) and the criminal justice system, and the impact on Aboriginal children, young people, and their families.This book...

• Essential reading for policy makers and practitioners alike • Seeks to address juvenile delinquency by advocating new government policies regarding youth socialization. • Takes the youth crime debate further by looking for answers in societies other...

This powerful critique of youth justice based on lived experience, theory and practice looks at the topic through a refreshing new lens, suggesting that some existing ways of dealing with children and young people may do more harm than good. After making...

This book addresses the conceptual and evidentiary issues relating to the treatment of propaganda in international criminal law. Bringing together an interdisciplinary range of scholars, researchers and legal practitioners from Africa, Australia, Europe...

The school-to-prison pipeline is often the path for marginalized students, particularly black males, who are three times as likely to be suspended as White students. This volume provides an ethnographic portrait of how educators can implement restorative...

Motherhood after Incarceration: Community Reintegration for Mothers in the Criminal Legal System explores the relationships of women with their children immediately after periods of incarceration. The analysis draws on in-depth interviews with 39 women...

A 'Going Straight' genre life story which breaks new ground in taking as its focus the vagaries of the child care system and in doing so is re-assuring for professionals and young people in care alike. It is a shocking fact that whilst just one per cent...

The purpose of this study was to identify the factors associated with the utilization of preadjudicatory detention among juveniles in the United States. Specifically, this study identified: (a) the philosophical basis associated with the utilization of...

The Misadventures of Nick is a collection of true stories of how Floyd W. Gill, a Deputy Sheriff and School Resource Officer in Alameda County, California of 28 years, worked to change the direction of many young lives. The stories follow the...

This volume is based on a detailed analysis of change in the law and in the administration of justice affecting juvenile off enders in California in the fifties and sixties. It addresses how procedural law develops on a long-term basis and under what...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Soziale Arbeit / Sozialarbeit, Note: 1,3, Universität Hildesheim (Stiftung), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Militärischer Drill, Disziplin, Gehorsam - dies sind nur einige der Schlagworte, die sich...

This book represents the first major analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality to be published and it makes significant theoretical and empirical contributions to the wider field of comparative criminology. By exploring trends in law,...

The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide is the definitive work on juvenile homicide. This volume provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, and in-depth exploration of what is known about juveniles involved in murder.

This volume contains two prize-winning essays on the problem of juvenile delinquency, written by Caroline Frances Cornwallis and Micaiah Hill and originally published in the mid-19th century. Combining detailed empirical research with insightful...

Minors can be involved in judicial proceedings of a different Member State when they have - allegedly - committed an offence within the EU. Whereas the EU has developed instruments to facilitate cooperation between Member States in criminal matters, no...

This Anger Management is a program structured around teaching inmates helpful coping strategies to better handle stressful situations while incarcerated. Though learning skills to reduce rage is vital, the primary focus of this anger management program...

Dans cet ouvrage, Charles Vigneron d'Heucqueville examine les différentes législations relatives aux mineurs en droit pénal. Il étudie les pratiques juridiques dans différentes cultures et époques historiques, offrant ainsi une perspective globale sur...