Review: Child victims and restorative justice: A needs-rights model

from the article by Bill Lyons in Law & Politics Review:

....Combining the right to participate from the Convention on the Rights of the Child with an empirical analysis of a child's need to regain control, participation emerges as a critically important need and right for at least three reasons. First, for immediate instrumental reasons, participation is both an immediate coping mechanism and is expected to improve criminal justice outcomes. Second, for longer term developmental reasons, meaningful participation in experiential learning opportunities is a developmental step toward empowering young adults to master the problem solving skills necessary to make democracy both possible and desirable.

Dec 19, 2011 Human Rights, Limitations, Juvenile, Theory, Book Review, Practice, Conceptual

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Restorative justice may not work for all young offenders

from the article by Pamela Snow on The Conversation:

Educating young offenders about the consequences of their crimes is a key way to ensure they don’t re-offend. But bringing them face to face with their victims may not always be the right way to go.

Young offenders often suffer long-term abuse or neglect. They frequently fail to achieve academically, and have few, if any marketable employment skills. They face elevated risks of mental health problems and early and problematic substance abuse.

Nov 18, 2011 Limitations, Juvenile, Theory, Practice, Potential

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