Supporting Young Offenders Through Restorative Justice: Parents as (In)Appropriate Adults

Set within the wider context of responsibilising youth justice policies, this article heeds academic calls for further research into parent/child dynamics within restorative justice processes (Prichard, 2002; Bradt et al., 2007), by critically analysing and evaluating the role of parents as supporters of young offenders.

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The Murder Inquiry and the Complexities of Victim Experiences: The Need for a Community and Social Justice Perspective

This paper draws on research evidence from the author's study of murder investigation in order to generate questions about social and welfare consequences of the contemporary murder inquiry.

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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).

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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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