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  • Responses to Serious Offending by Children

    Principles, Practice and Global Perspectives

    Edited by Nessa Lynch, Yannick van den Brink, Louise Forde ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    This book explores the principles, practice and challenges in determining justice system responses to serious offending by children globally.Divided into four parts, the book provides a balance of theoretical and empirical insights. Anchored in a theoretical framework based on the human rights of children, as set out in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, it considers the relationship ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

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  • Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution

    by Lucy Series ...
    Series series Law, Society, Policy
    ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence.During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of ‘deprivation of liberty’ resulted in large numbers of older and disabled people in care homes, supported ... Read more

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  • The Legal Rights of Students with Disabilities

    International Perspectives

    by Bronagh Byrne, Kate Diesfeld, Petra Engelbrecht, John Hancock, Neville Harris, Jim Jackson, Laura Lundy, Nina Ranieri, Marius Smit, M K. Teh, Fatt Hee Tie, Sally Varnham, Ran Zhang, Greg M. Dickinson, Allan G. Osborne Jr. ...
    Since 1948 when the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, all students have been declared the right to education. The rights of disabled students have not been explicitly addressed, however, and each country has developed their own rules and regulations. Although similarities exist among the different countries, differences are evident, especially in both the extent and ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Disabled People and the Right to Life

    The Protection and Violation of Disabled People’s Most Basic Human Rights

    Edited by Luke Clements, Janet Read ...
    The most basic of human rights, the right to life, is the focus of this book.'Human rights' has increasingly come to be seen as a significant framework, both to aid understanding of the experiences of those who face oppression, and to underpin social, legal and political measures to counter it. Disabled People and the Right to Life uses this framework to explore how disabled people’s right to life ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD

  • Responding to Youth Crime in Canada

    by Carla Cesaroni, Anthony N. Doob ...
    In Responding to Youth Crime in Canada, Anthony Doob and Carla Cesaroni describe how Canada has been responding to youth crime in the context of the Youth Criminal Justice Act, which came into force on April 1, 2003. The authors describe what is known about Canadian youth crime, and the operation of the youth justice system in the context of the changes in the law that are taking place.The authors ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Empowering Children

    Children's Rights Education as a Pathway to Citizenship

    by Katherine Covell, R. Brian Howe ...
    Approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child affirms that children in all countries have fundamental rights, including rights to education. To date, 192 states are signatories to or have in some form ratified the accord. Children are still imperilled in many countries, however, and are often not made aware of their ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Children's Rights

    Multidisciplinary Approaches to Participation and Protection

    by Tom O'Neill, Dawn Zinga ...
    The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child was incorporated into international law in 1989. Since its adoption, it has been ratified by nearly all member nations. An outline of the basic rights of all persons under the age of 18, the Convention has various implications and its importance cannot be contested. This collection focuses on children's rights as defined by the U.N. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Enforcement of Offender Supervision in Europe

    Understanding Breach Processes

    Edited by Miranda Boone, Niamh Maguire ...
    Series series Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
    This book provides a comparative analysis of the process of breach across ten different European jurisdictions by identifying and elaborating a number of key analytical themes through which the different systems can be compared and evaluated. It is informed by and hopes to advance the research activities of the COST Action IS1106 on Offender Supervision in Europe, particularly the Action’s work on ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD

  • Managing Fear

    The Law and Ethics of Preventive Detention and Risk Assessment

    by Bernadette McSherry ...
    Series series International Perspectives on Forensic Mental Health
    Managing Fear examines the growing use of risk assessment as it relates to preventive detention and supervision schemes for offenders perceived to be at a high risk of re-offending, individuals with severe mental illness, and suspected terrorists. It outlines a number of legislative regimes in common law countries that have broadened ‘civil’ (as opposed to criminal) powers of detention and ... Read more

    $105.80 CAD

  • Youth Criminal Justice Policy in Canada

    A Critical Introduction

    by Shahid Alvi ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In the past ten years, much has changed in terms of youth justice policies in Canada as well as in the way Canadian society has evolved.Canada has a new Act governing youth crime, and there are indications that the Act will be revised again to make it "tougher" on youth in conflict with the law, a development reflecting what many scholars are calling the "punitive turn" in youth justice policies ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • New Law and Ethics in Mental Health Advance Directives

    The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Right to Choose

    by Penelope Weller ...
    Series series Explorations in Mental Health
    The recognition of positive rights and the growing impact of human rights principles has recently orchestrated a number of reforms in mental health law, bringing increasing entitlement to an array of health services. In this book, Penelope Weller considers the relationship between human rights and mental health law, and the changing attitudes which have led to the recognition of a right to demand ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Domestic Violence

    Edited by Michael Freeman ...
    Series series The Family, Law and Society
    Domestic violence - domestic hooliganism it has been called - is one of the cancers of our age. This volume offers a challenging selection of materials as a picture of a multi-faceted problem. The issues embraced range from criminal and civil law responses and the value of mediation, to the impact on children, and to the cultural context. The materials are derived from a variety of sources and ... Read more

    $735.19 CAD