Author: Blair B. BourquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Helping Victims and Witnesses in the Juvenile Justice System
Author: Blair B. BourquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Children as Victims, Witnesses, and Offenders
Author: Bette L. BottomsPublisher: Guilford Press
ISBN: 1606233580
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Grounded in the latest clinical and developmental knowledge, this book brings together leading authorities to examine the critical issues that arise when children and adolescents become involved in the justice system. Chapters explore young people’s capacities, competencies, and special vulnerabilities as victims, witnesses, and defendants. Key topics include the reliability of children’s abuse disclosures, eyewitness testimony, interviews, and confessions; the evolving role of the expert witness; the psychological impact of trauma and of legal involvement; factors that shape jurors’ perceptions of children; and what works in rehabilitating juvenile offenders. Policies and practices that are not supported by science are identified, and approaches to improving them are discussed.
Helping Victims and Witnesses in the Juvenile Justice System
Author: Blair B. BourquePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Juvenile Delinquency Development Statements
Author: Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
NIJ Reports
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Federal Register
Author: The Child victim as a witness
Author: Helping Crime Victims
Author: Albert R. RobertsPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Topics covered include overview of victimology, victim services and witness assistance programs, missing and murdered children in America, crisis intervention with battered women and their children, police-based crisis teams, telephone hotline programs and services for family violence survivors.
Reforming Juvenile Justice
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309278937
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term consequences, and heightened sensitivity to peers and other social influences. A key function of adolescence is developing an integrated sense of self, including individualization, separation from parents, and personal identity. Experimentation and novelty-seeking behavior, such as alcohol and drug use, unsafe sex, and reckless driving, are thought to serve a number of adaptive functions despite their risks. Research indicates that for most youth, the period of risky experimentation does not extend beyond adolescence, ceasing as identity becomes settled with maturity. Much adolescent involvement in criminal activity is part of the normal developmental process of identity formation and most adolescents will mature out of these tendencies. Evidence of significant changes in brain structure and function during adolescence strongly suggests that these cognitive tendencies characteristic of adolescents are associated with biological immaturity of the brain and with an imbalance among developing brain systems. This imbalance model implies dual systems: one involved in cognitive and behavioral control and one involved in socio-emotional processes. Accordingly adolescents lack mature capacity for self-regulations because the brain system that influences pleasure-seeking and emotional reactivity develops more rapidly than the brain system that supports self-control. This knowledge of adolescent development has underscored important differences between adults and adolescents with direct bearing on the design and operation of the justice system, raising doubts about the core assumptions driving the criminalization of juvenile justice policy in the late decades of the 20th century. It was in this context that the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) asked the National Research Council to convene a committee to conduct a study of juvenile justice reform. The goal of Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach was to review recent advances in behavioral and neuroscience research and draw out the implications of this knowledge for juvenile justice reform, to assess the new generation of reform activities occurring in the United States, and to assess the performance of OJJDP in carrying out its statutory mission as well as its potential role in supporting scientifically based reform efforts.
Victims and Witnesses
Author: Richard D. KnudtenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence, Criminal
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description