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Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons Trafficking: Its Contributory Factors and Key Actors in Selected Areas of Ethiopia
Nowadays, illicit small arms and light weapons (SALW) trafficking become a great threat to the peace and security of Ethiopia. During 2020, in all...
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Continuity and Change in the Roles of Correctional Personnel
If the field of corrections is defined in a broad manner, such as bringing a person to a state of behavior in which their acts are in conformity with...
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Children in Conflict with the Law: The Rights-Based Framework
Throughout recent decades, a large body of children’s rights standards has been developed, setting a clear benchmark for the protection of children’s...
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Administration of Juvenile Justice by Policing Agencies
In the past, when law enforcement officers responded to offenses committed by juveniles and interaction with children, they generally were able to...
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Future Perspectives on Counseling and Treatment of Criminal and Delinquent Offenders
The field of corrections does not exist in a vacuum. Corrections is only one component of the criminal justice system, and what happens in the law...
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Treatments for ADHD in adults in jails, prisons and correctional settings: a sco** review of the literature
BackgroundAttention-Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is prevalent at a higher rate in correctional settings than in the general population....
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The Policing of Youthful ‘Social Dynamite’ and Neo-liberal Capitalism: Continuities, Discontinuities and Alternatives
Focussing on what Steven Box described as the social construction of young people as ‘social dynamite’ (Box, Power, Crime and Mystification,...
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Seattle’s law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD): program effects on criminal justice and legal system utilization and costs
ObjectivesWe evaluated a prebooking law enforcement assisted diversion (LEAD) program (i.e., initial diversion from the criminal justice system...
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Contexts sha** misdemeanor system interventions among people with mental illnesses: qualitative findings from a multi-site system map** exercise
BackgroundPeople with mental illnesses are disproportionately entangled in the criminal legal system. Historically, this involvement has resulted...
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Racial disparities in youth pretrial detention: a retrospective cohort study grounded in critical race theory
Background and methodPretrial detention makes up 75% of juvenile detention admissions and contributes to the disproportionate contact of minoritized...
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Policy distraction: sentencing reform adoption as a diversion from rising social inequality
Since the mid-1970s, more than two-thirds of U.S. states adopted some combination of sentencing reforms. This paper assessed the possibility that...
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Children and Young People in Court
Each Australian state and territory have a designated Children’s Court operating under a separate legal framework. This chapter provides an overview...
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Legitimacy, Fairness, and Distracted Driving
This chapter focuses on the issues of fairness and legitimacy in the context of instrumental and normative compliance. As a context in which so many...
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Restorative Justice Conferencing in a New Zealand Environmental Offending Context: Two Models
Environmental offending can impact many aspects of our lives; the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the land we live upon. Such offending can...
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Assessing the Effect of Mental Health Courts on Adult and Juvenile Recidivism: A Meta-Analysis
Mental health courts (MHCs) are increasingly used across the United States as a means of reducing contact with the criminal justice system for...
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Case Prosecution: Race, Justice, and Decision-Making
Prosecution in the United States is changing rapidly. Prosecutors increasingly are expected to take proactive, engaged responses to community...
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Looking for the Restoration in Restorative Justice’s Response to Civil Disobedience
Increases in protests have contributed to US courts and law enforcement referring more and different types of cases to alternative justice pathways...
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Reintegration
Article 40(1) of the CRC requires states parties to treat children in a way that takes into account the desirability of promoting their reintegration...
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Diverting Special Categories of Offenders to Community Treatment Programs
In this chapter, alternative methods for processing certain categories of offenders are explored. Various specialty courts for the mentally ill,...
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The Global Small Arms Trade and Diversions at Transfer
This chapter provides a brief overview of the global small arms trade and examines how firearms under the regulated trade are diverted into the...