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Sentencing young adults with juvenile sanctions in The Netherlands: increasing risk or no differences on the chance of recidivism
ObjectivesIn the Netherlands, adolescent criminal law makes it is possible to sentence young adult offenders with juvenile sanctions. This study...
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Sometimes they Come Back: Recidivism and the Adult Imprisonment of Formerly Incarcerated Serious And Violent Juvenile Offenders
This study examines the adult imprisonment outcomes of a cohort of serious and violent juvenile offenders released from Texas state juvenile...
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Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Diversion and Formal Processing
In this chapter, various means used to process juvenile offenders are considered. The juvenile court was created with the specific philosophy of...
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Extending the long arm of the law: punishment and rehabilitation as motives of public support for handling violent juvenile offenders as adults
ObjectivesTo assess variation in public support for involving violent juvenile offenders in the adult criminal justice system based on the mechanism...
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Juvenile Sentencing Reform
In 1899, the first juvenile court was implemented in Cook County, Illinois. Since its inception, the juvenile justice system has experienced three...
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Treatment of Juvenile Offenders: Toward Multisystemic Risk and Resource Management
The conclusion of social scientists in the 1970s that psychological interventions were not effective in treating juvenile offenders contributed to...
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Trends in Juvenile Justice Administration
In attempting to determine the trends in the juvenile justice system, several different perspectives can be pursued. One question that keeps being...
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Administration of Probation, Parole, and Other Community-Based Sanctions
The term community corrections refers to the programs and services that are used for the supervision and treatment of youths who have been...
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Administration of Juvenile Correctional Facilities
The development of separate facilities to house juveniles convicted of criminal offenses grew out of the Child Savers Movement and the creation of...
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Juvenile Community Corrections in China: the Quest for a Restorative Approach
Community-based treatment has long been a major component of the criminal justice system in most Western jurisdictions; however, this is not the case...
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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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Juvenile Court Administration: Diversion and Informal Processing
The mission and goals of the juvenile court have not changed significantly during the more than 120 years since the first juvenile court was created....
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Comparing Official Measures of Recidivism in Juvenile Justice
Recidivism is a foundational concept that represents the continued criminal behavior after system contact. Evidence suggests that how recidivism is...
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Community-Based Sanctions: Probation and Post-Release Supervision
This chapter defines probation and traces the origins of probation from its early development to the present time. The organization and operations of...
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Juvenile Probation Reform: Moving from Surveillance to Effective Intervention
Probation is the most common disposition for justice-involved youth. Traditional approaches to probation expect perfect compliance with probation...
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Applying Restorative Justice Models in the Correctional Process
The concept restorative justice implies that the criminal offender, the victim, and the community should all be involved in the offender’s...
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Rethinking Sanctioning for Offenders with Mental Health Issues: A Balanced Justice Approach
The public’s perspective regarding sanctioning offenders, especially violent and nonviolent, tend to support either a rehabilitative or balanced...
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Doing Time: Young People and the Rhetoric of Juvenile Justice in Ghana
In this chapter, we review the juvenile justice system in Ghana and how it responds to young people in conflict with the law. There is a dearth of...
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The Functions of Classification and Assessment Models in Correctional Treatment
Classification systems have been used in the field of corrections in the United States for purposes of control and punishment for many years. In the...
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Counseling and Treatment of Juvenile Offenders
A variety of methods have been used by counselors and therapists in the treatment of juveniles under the supervision and care of children service and...