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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Youth incarceration"”.
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Countering Youth Incarceration: Community Strategies in New Orleans and Cape Town
… remedial strategies addressing high youth incarceration and recidivism rates in the cities of Cape Town and New Orleans. Working within a theoretical framework of structural violence, I argue that the dominant discourse of Criminal Justice is based in punitive and retributive …
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An Evolving Standard of Decency: Examining the American Juvenile Justice System and the Constitutionality of Youth Incarceration
… ineffective at rehabilitating delinquent youth, which places the practice at odds with the stated intent of modern juvenile justice. Similar to the adult criminal justice system, there is a significant and widespread disparity in the incarceration rate between that of minority youth and …
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“We Are Not Disorderly Kids”: Young Adult, Family, and Social Work Perspectives on Disrupting System Failures that Funnel Child Welfare Involved Youth into the Juvenile Legal System
Foster care, youth detention, and youth incarceration are all associated with long-term harms including lifelong trauma, physical health and mental health concerns, and significant challenges transitioning into adulthood. Youth involved in child welfare face disproportionately high risk of juvenile …
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Uncovering the lived experience of marriage and family therapists working with incarcerated youth: A phenomenological approach
… population of adolescents who are incarcerated, youth with diagnosable mental illness are overrepresented compared to the general population. Though youth arrest rates have declined greatly since the turn of the 21st century, youth recidivism rates have been consistent for the past 40 years. …