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Chapter 19

Links from the book:

www.barnados.org.uk
Like other major children’s charities, Barnardo’s takes a keen interest in youth justice, crime, and victimization. The website provides details of the project work undertaken and of relevant research.

www.yjb.gov.uk/en-gb
The website for the Youth Justice Board provides an excellent guide to the workings of the youth justice system, including information on sentences, courts, and custody. It also highlights the YJB’s publications and research and provides links to relevant legislation and reports.

www.nayj.org.uk
The National Association for Youth Justice broadly advocates an approach to youth justice based on the rights of children and young people. It publishes a newsletter and the journal Youth Justice that includes many topical articles on the workings of the youth justice system.

www.guardian.co.uk/society/youthjustice/
This section within the Guardian’s Society website provides useful links to other relevant sites and details of recent articles dealing with youth crime and youth justice.

www.howardleague.org
Along with other penal reform groups such as Nacro, the Howard League runs various projects and campaigns linked to youth justice in addition to producing publications and reports.

Further links of interest:

United Kingdom

The Centre for Adolescent Rehabilitation (C-FAR):
www.c-far.org.uk/
the web site provides information about the Centre (run in association with the University of Exeter), statistics, press releases and links as well as details of the Centre's 10 week residential programme.

Children's Rights Alliance for England:
www.crae.org.uk/
a charity that provides information on developments in children's rights. The charity acts as advocates for laws and policy to be fully compatible with the Convention on the Rights of the Child; and disseminates information to professionals and the public.

Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime:
www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/
study of youth offending in Scotland has links to the study’s findings, the data that has been collected so far and links to related sites.

Trust for the Study of Adolescence:
www.tsa.uk.com/
Was founded in 1989 to help improve the lives of young people and families. The work is derived from the belief that there is a lack of knowledge and understanding about adolescence and young adulthood. The site contains links to all research carried out by the Trust.

National Association for Youth Justice (NAYJ):
www.nayj.org.uk/
Provides useful links for those interested in juvenile and youth justice.

Commonwealth

Family conferencing and juvenile justice: the way forward or misplaced optimism?:
www.aic.gov.au/publications/lcj/family/index.html
A paper produced by Christine Alder and Joy Wundersitz for the Australian Institute of Criminology. Full text.

Recidivism among juvenile offenders: an analysis of times to reappearance in court:
www.aic.gov.au/publications/rpp/17/
a paper produced by Carlos Carcach and Simon Leverett for the Australian Institute of Criminology full text.

Youth Justice Renewal Canada:
canada.justice.gc.ca/en/ps/yj/
Information about the youth justice system in Canada and about the roles and responsibilities of the federal, provincial, and territorial governments and other youth justice partners.

United States

Juvenile Information Network:
www.juvenilenet.org/
The Official Site of the Corrections Institute.