young offenders
MRT: Is it Effective in Decreasing Recidivism Rates with Young Offenders?
... that young offenders are commited to school or employment when discharged, bad experiences, availability and financial and structural concerns impede with this ...of young people that may be ...
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Orders for Open Custody: A Rebirth of the Status Offence Under the Young Offenders Act
... These concerns had an impact on the drafting of the Y.O.A. Subsection 3(1) of the Act emphasizes the fact that children have the same rights as adults under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Act also ...
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Barriers to positive mental health in a young offenders institution: A qualitative study
... most young offenders, however leaving family and friends was ...emotions young offenders would use coping mechanisms, these included acts of aggression to vent built up ...all offenders ...
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RoadRunners: An Exploratory Study of an Activity Programme for Young Offenders in North Dublin
... To summarise, both this research and the existing literature has found that staff play a crucial role in activity programmes for young offenders. They are viewed as mentors and are particularly effective as ...
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Conditions for sustainable decarceration strategies for young offenders
... 100 offenders, group work with some of them, and interviews with the offenders and their families, Parker et ...for offenders or their parents, legal representation was denied, and sentencing was ...
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Developing Ethical Identities in Young Offenders through Restorative Justice Practice in Australia
... assist young offenders in managing the delicate emotional transactions that necessarily occur in youth justice conferences in a manner that allows them to develop their ethical self-concepts in meaningful ...
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Young offenders' perspectives on their literacy and communication skills
... 3,645 young offenders (YOs) received a custodial sentence in the UK (Transforming youth custody, ...of offenders have difficulties associated with speech-language and communication (Bryan, 2007) and ...
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Children’s reporters’ attitudes toward young offenders
... toward young offenders and whether or not they hold classical views toward the causes, prevention and treatment of ...toward young offenders and ...
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The Profile of Young Offenders in the City of Maputo, Mozambique (pp. 1-18).
... were young, had committed minor crimes with an emphasis on theft and robbery, were linked to activities in the informal sector, and had little ...the young offenders behavior an important topic of ...
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Psychopathology, trauma and delinquency: subtypes of aggression and their relevance for understanding young offenders
... In the study of juvenile delinquency, we are immedi- ately brought face to face with a paradox: on one hand, problems with disruptive behavior are extremely com- mon in child psychiatric clinics [17-19]. On the other ...
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Attention Problems and Learning Disabilities in Young Offenders in Detention in Greece
... the young offenders was characterized by low attendance, high levels of dropouts, non-systematic effort, grade retention and academic ...juvenile offenders (Livaditis, Fotiadou, Kouloubardou, ...
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Young offenders with mental health problems in transition
... to young offenders: caring, empathy, concern, being interested (Shattell et al, 2007; Lowenburg, 2003; Ribner and Knei-Puz, 2002; Ackermann and Hilsenworth, ...2006). Young people with mental health ...
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Evidence review: Music making with young offenders and young people at risk of offending
... for young offenders is challenging, especially in institutional settings where there is often an atmosphere of volatility and a culture dominated by rules, timetables and procedures (Johnston and Hewish, ...
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Young offenders' views of desistance in Japan : a comparison with Scotland
... of young offenders or ex-offenders in Japan, but proved reluctant to support the research, on the grounds of data protection – their argument was that current and ex-offenders’ identities ...
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Dealing with Young Offenders
... for young offenders where the courts now have the discretion over other forms of sentencing in the case of State v Pickering [2001] FJHC 341 which stated: “It is not in dispute that the majority of ...
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Social Relationships in Young Offenders: Relevance to Peers, Poverty, and Psychological Adjustment
... of offenders had a mix of both male and female companions, with the smallest proportion possessing exclusively opposite sex friends ...the offenders who possessed exclusively positive friendships, none of ...
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Tough on young offenders : harmful or helpful?
... of young offenders who appeared in court when 20/21 years old and were given a custodial sentence at the beginning of the decade, when these tough regimes were in ...the offenders in England and ...
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Transition of care among young offenders with ongoing mental health problems in England: young offenders in transition
... on young people’s discharge destinations and presenting needs at a national ...for young people are nationally funded services accommodating young people transferring from prison settings and ...
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ALTERNATIVES TO CUSTODY FOR YOUNG OFFENDERS
... of young persons convicted of crime has therefore been followed by a substantial tightening of both the law and its application in relation to young ...of young people being awarded waivers of ...
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Keeping young people engaged: improving education, training and employment opportunities for serious and persistent young offenders
... In summary, this report has sought to document the real difficulties the different projects faced in implementing improved ETE services and support for persistent and serious young offenders. It also ...
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