This revised and updated new edition focuses on major developments in sentencing law,
practice and theory. Sentencing in England and Wales is now dominated by Sentencing …

The English and Scottish youth justice systems share a commitment to preventive as
opposed to retributive goals, but pursue them in sharply contrasting ways. In Scotland, a …

This paper considers the extent to which the Government's declared intentions to unite youth
justice practice cultures around a common emphasis on preventing offending through early …

Despite a juvenile justice system that, since its inception in 1908, has been predicated on
meeting the rehabilitative needs of youth, Canada has few specialized programs for …

The Probation Service has from its inception taken some responsibility for juvenile offenders.
But over the years the manner and degree to which offending by children and young people …

This article reports research findings on the representations of youth crime and of young
lawbreakers in Canadian print media. The examination of a subset of the sample of news …

This study is the first in Canada to examine gun usage and harm to others, with original
interview data, and aims to identify the correlates of sublethal violence among at-risk youth …

This report was commissioned by the Department of Justice in support of the implementation
and evaluation of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. The research had two main objectives: to …

We begin our ethnographic study of a young-offender facility in Canada by analysing a
macro-level theoretical debate that began when Pat O'Malley (1999) critiqued David …

The decision to have dedicated youth officers is not an easy option for many police agencies
due to financial and human resource constraints. Yet, very little research examines whether …