Social Capital, Resilience and Desistance: The Ability to be a Risk Navigator

There has been increasing attention to the role of social capital in fostering resilience to risk and challenging life transitions, particularly for young people (Evans, 2002).

The Probation Service Reporting for Duty: Court Reports and Social Justic

The probation service provides criminal courts with information on people who offend, before they are sentenced, by utilising three report formats.

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Canada’s Aboriginal People, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome & the Criminal Justice System

This paper is an examination of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and the related conditions of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), fetal alcohol effects (FAE), and alcoholrelated birth effects (ARBE)3 as they pertain to the Canadian criminal justice system, and specifically to Aboriginal Canadian offenders.

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Book Reviews (6.3)

Comparing the Implementation of Restorative Justice in Various Countries: Purpose, Potential and Caveats

The aim of this contribution is to deal with the purposes, benefits and caveats of comparative studies in the field of restorative justice.