An Exploration of the Impacts That Experiencing Domestic Violence can Have on a Child’s Primary School Education: View of Educational Staff

This Prize is dedicated to the late Professor Brian Williams, co-editor of the British Journal of Community Justice from 2002-2007.

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Law and Order Conservatism and Youth Justice: Outcomes and Effects in Canada and England and Wales

This paper explores how underlying law and order conservatism has shaped and defined youth justice policy in England and Wales and Canada.

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Youth Justice, Participation and Radical Moral Communitarianism

It is disconcerting that practice in youth justice tends to be coercive and disengaging.

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“Youth Justice Practice is Just Messy” Youth Offending Team Practitioners: Culture and Identity

At a time when the Ministry of Justice has announced a 'stock take' (Puffett, 2014) of youth justice it is now more crucial than ever that attention is paid to the organisational culture of youth offending teams (YOTs) and the occupational identity of the practitioners that work within them.

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Editorial: Taking Stock of Youth Justice

The call for this special issue 'Taking Stock of Youth Justice' went out before the recent general election in the UK.

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Community Courts to Address Youth Offending: A Lost Opportunity?

This article presents an account of the work of community courts in the USA (in Red Hook, Brooklyn) and the UK, specifically to examine the ways in which youth offending is, or can be, addressed.

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Doing Time with Lifers: A Reflective Study of Life Sentence Prisoners

We constantly hear the public’s outcry that “life should mean life!” and that anyone convicted of murder should never see the light of day again.

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