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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, published by Canadian Criminal Justice Association on January 1, 2003. The length of the article is 8713 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: This article examines parents in the youth justice system, based on a conceptual analysis and a phenomenological inquiry of parents with a son convicted of crimes in the youth justice system of a district in Western Canada. The difficult task of parenting a young offender is made more onerous by the societal tendency to blame parents or ignore their need for support; yet policies and practices expect parents to be the primary sources of supervision, care, and rehabilitation of youth in difficulty. The findings chronicle parental experiences of stress and loss and the hard work parents do to respond to the difficult and contradictory expectations of the youth justice system. Even when they did "all the right things" parents encountered systemic injustices and exclusion from meaningful participation in important decisions that affected their sons and themselves. The discussion explores implications, taking parental experiences into account, and proposes systemic changes, based on a community change approach to youth justice, to facilitate enhanced parental support and empowerment.

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Title: Parents and youth justice.
Author: Doug Hillian
Publication: Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Criminal Justice Association
Volume: 45Issue: 1Page: 19(23)

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¡n we get some reality in here?ߡsks Judy Sheindlin, former supervising judge for Manhattan Family Court. For twenty–four years she has laid down the law as she understands it:

● If you want to eat, you have to work.

● If you have children, you'd better support them.

• If you break the law, you have to pay.

• If you tap the public purse, you'd better be accountable.

  Now she abandons all judicial restraint in a scathing critique of the system – filled with realistic hard–nosed alternatives to our bloated welfare bureaucracy and our soft–on–crime laws.

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this book should be required reading for all kids in jr. high school. Judge Judy has an uncanny ability to glean the truth out of a pile of b.s.! ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Youth Studies Australia, published by Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies on December 1, 2003. The length of the article is 5706 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Restitution and restorative justice in juvenile justice and school dicipline.(Peer Reviewed Paper)
Author: Barry A. Fields
Publication: Youth Studies Australia (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 2003
Publisher: Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies
Volume: 22Issue: 4Page: 44(8)

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From Wagga Wagga, Australia, to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, a revolution is taking place in how police, courts, schools and workplaces respond to wrongdoing. Instead of just doling out punishment to offenders, we are changing our criminal justice and disciplinary systems to address the harm done to victims and the community. Based in ancient tribal practices, REAL JUSTICE involves victims, offenders and their families and friends in a face-to-face process called "restorative justice conferencing."In his book, REAL JUSTICE, Ted Wachtel offers a moving and powerful account of the growth and development of restorative justice conferencing in New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada and the United States through true stories of victims and offenders in real life encounters. In vivid testimony, we see victims confront shoplifters and vandals, bullies and arsonists with their emotions. Offenders usually shed their "tough guy" images and come away with empathy and understanding for those they have harmed -- not only their victims, but their own families as well.Restorative justice conferencing holds offenders accountable and satisfies victims more effectively than our courts and school disciplinary processes. REAL JUSTICE brings us hope for a better future. "During Terry O'Connell's presentation I was seized by an epiphany, a sudden intuitive realization that I had just encountered an essential universal truth. Restorative justice conferencing was so simple that it was elegant, so basic that it was complete.Nothing in my experience with young offenders could match the positive outcomes being described by this Australian police officer. I wanted to bring restorative justice conferencing to North America, where we lead the world in escalating juvenile crime and school misconduct."-- Ted Wachtel, founder of Real Justice and president of the International Institute for Restorative Practices (IIRP) Graduate School ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, published by Canadian Criminal Justice Association on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 4739 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Previous meta-analyses of the correctional treatment literature have demonstrated that family intervention programs for delinquents represent some of the strongest treatment modalities available for this population. However, a recent meta-analysis by Latimer (2001) argued that, although family intervention appears to be effective at first glance, when controls are introduced for the methodological quality of the evaluation, the sizes of the effects decrease substantially, and under the strictest methodological conditions, they ultimately disappear. The present meta-analysis explored the impact of methodological rigour on the findings of evaluations of family intervention programs for young offenders, but attention was paid to the appropriateness of the programs (e.g., whether they adhered to the principles of risk, need, and general responsivity). Although the effects of the program decreased mildly under the strictest methodological conditions, appropriate treatment continued to yield significant mean reductions in reoffending. The implications of these findings for the broader literature are discussed.

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Title: Does family intervention work for delinquents?:Results of a meta-analysis.
Author: Craig Dowden
Publication: Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice (Refereed)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Canadian Criminal Justice Association
Volume: 45Issue: 3Page: 327(17)

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This digital document is an article from Youth Studies Australia, published by Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies on June 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1506 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Crime & justice. (Youth monitor: a national roundup of recent press reports on youth issues).(Brief Article)
Author: Robyn Colman
Publication: Youth Studies Australia (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2002
Publisher: Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies
Volume: 21Issue: 2Page: 4(2)

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This digital document is an article from Youth Studies Australia, published by Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 314 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Arson. (Crime & justice).(Brief Article)
Author: Adrian Colman
Publication: Youth Studies Australia (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Australian Clearing House for Youth Studies
Volume: 21Issue: 1Page: 5(1)

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This digital document is an article from Family Practice News, published by International Medical News Group on April 15, 2005. The length of the article is 945 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Supreme Court decision ends juvenile executions: the U.S., Iran, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were the only countries to execute juveniles.(Practice Trends)
Author: David Sternberg
Publication: Family Practice News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 15, 2005
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 35Issue: 8Page: 68(1)

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Compelling true-life stories that encourage teens to stay out of trouble. ... Read more

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As a volunteer working with boys in the juvenile justice system, I was able to read this book to some troubled youths at a residential treatment center.They thought the book was terrific--not only did they identify with the cases described, but the legal afternotes provoked much discussion about the consequences of their own actions.It is written at a level that even the boys with limited verbal skills could understand it.

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