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Section 3 focuses on current good practice with young female offenders. This research solidifies the knowledge base around young female offending and highlights remaining gaps by drawing together what is known internationally, with specific and original data on young women currently in the youth justice system in England and Wales. Furthermore, this research, in drawing together information.
Outline of the Young Offenders Act 1997 (pages 12-25) The Young Offenders Act 1997 was introduced by the Carr Government and had commenced in full by 6 April 1998. It formally recognised warnings, cautions, and conferences as alternatives to conventional court proceedings for children who commit crimes other than those resulting in the death of a person, serious drug offences, various sexual.
This research involved qualitative interviews with 37 young offenders aged 12-17 years, contextual interviews with youth justice professionals and examination of case files. The paper presents the offenders’ critical views of their experiences under arrest, focusing on issues they raised regarding the arrest procedures, police transfer, and time at the police station. These are then analysed.
This paper comprises a small-scale, qualitative study of one such intervention in a Young Offender Institution in the South of England. Placing respondent accounts at the centre of the analysis, the paper sheds light on the practicalities of programme delivery by uncovering the motivating factors behind participant engagement whilst exploring broader notions of personal development. The paper.
The central aim of the thesis is to explore the differences between how elderly offenders are represented in the media as opposed to young offenders. The key underlying objective is to firstly highlight if there is a distinction and then secondly to go to question the basis for a distinction between the representation of young offenders and elderly offenders in the media.
The Mental Health Needs of Young Offenders INTRODUCTION In 2000 the Mental Health Foundation established a vulnerable young people project to explore the mental health needs of four key groups of young people identified as being at risk of developing mental health difficulties.These being young offenders, children with emotional and behavioural difficulties,looked after children and homeless.
Essay The subject of young offenders in our troubled society has been one that has generated many hours of thought and meditation for concerned members. It is felt by many that the change needed in the area of delinquency within the First Nations culture is to overcome the effects of colonization and this must begin with the youth. It is with the youth that the future of the culture lies.