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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Young Offender"”.
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Exploring Knowledge of Neurodisabilities and Access to Education in Custody at a Young Offender Centre in Cape Town, South Africa
Neurodisabilities are highly prevalent in the young offender population. However, there is a dearth of literature on neurodisabilities (including LDs and TBI) and access to education among young offenders in South Africa (SA). Young offenders in custody have needs across different areas, such as …
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Preparing the young offender for return to society: A theoretical evaluation of Guyanese juvenile delinquents' narratives based on general treatment models
<p>The site of the study is a co-educational detention center known as the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), located in a former British colony of South America, now known as Guyana. Forty- eight detainees of this institution, which is also legally designated a training school, were interviewed about …
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Breaking the hegemony of the prison : an analysis of the detention centre system.
… of the emergence of the Detention Centre in the young offender sector of the English penal system. In doing so, it is intended to eradicate the hiatus created by either an absence of research, or by research which has been unable or unconcerned for epistemological reasons to address the Detention …
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Juvenile offenders, ‘grave’ crimes and the use of long-term detention : An examination of the law and issues of contemporary criminal justice.
… Act 2000 (formerly s. 53(2) of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933). This law provides the higher courts with special powers to detain juveniles to longer periods of detention above the usual 24-month limit. This separate system of law and justice for the most serious juvenile offenders is …
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Crossover Kids: Maltreatment Experiences, Subsequent Maladjustment, and Systems of Care
… the YJS. Two hundred and ninety-nine archival young offender files of Canadian youth were sampled from an urban-based court clinic between the years 2010 and 2016 for the current study. Descriptive analyses revealed that nearly 90 percent of crossover youth had a history of maltreatment and …
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The Martial Arts Project: Exploring the Use of the Martial Arts as an Intervention for Young Offenders with Substance Influenced Violent Offences
… address substance use and violent behaviors in young offenders and have shown success. This study explores the question of the effectiveness of alternative methods of intervention, such as the martial arts, for young offenders with substance influenced violent offences. Unfortunately, there is …
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Adult Offender Recidivism Rates: How Effective is Pre-Release and Vocational Education Programing and What Demographic Factors Contribute to an Offenders Return to Prison
… vocational education had a significant impact on offender recidivism. Additionally, a model of predicating offender recidivism using demographic data was another aspect of the study. Offenders in the study were 404 offenders who completed the pre-release program, 404 offenders who completed …
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The Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury and an Investigation of Behavioural, Emotional and Executive Functioning in a Sample of Male Young Offenders
… behaviour and traumatic brain injury (TBI). In young offenders, particularly, TBI is significantly more prevalent than in the general youth population. This association might be explained by the fact that key TBI sequelae (e.g., aggression, behavioural and cognitive impulsivity, emotional …
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L¿ESECUZIONE DELLA PENA E L¿ORDINAMENTO PENITENZIARIO PER IMINORENNI: L¿EVOLUZIONE E LE NUOVE PROSPETTIVE ALLA LUCEDEL D.LGS. 2 OTTOBRE 2018, N. 121
… the prison system, in respect of juvenile offenders (rectius: those who had not reached the age of majority, at the time of the commission of the offence), in the light of the enactment of Legislative Decree No 121 of 2 October 2018. The latter implemented Article 1(81), (83) and (85)(p) of …
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"My Voice Rises on the Mic": a New Artographic Spoken Word Poetry Programme Portraying Two Young Offenders' Artistic Ways of Being in a Macedonian Prison
… criminological turn to study how the stories offenders tell about their lives can support a crime-free life, through subjective, social and judicial rehabilitation. In this context, I inquired into the potential contributions of a new spoken word poetry programme in offenders’ lives in a …