In this book...

How to deal with troubled youth who fall through the cracks in the health, education, and justice systems
What are the psychological and social consequences of charging youth with criminal offences?
Assessing the capacities and needs of young offenders
What are the challenges to the justice system in improving the approach to youth with mental disabilities and other disadvantaged youth?

Canada has a 100 year history of using the criminal justice system to address social problems of youth in society. Has this approach worked? Not according to clinical psychologist Mary Vandergoot. In fact, this approach has ignored the reality that many youth who come into contact with the law may have developmental disabilities, mental health disorders, suffer from a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, or be victims of violence or neglect. Our current approach to youth justice can actually harm such young persons and their families by ignoring their needs. The author challenges us to examine the assumptions behind our approach to youth justice, and break the cycle of using legal sanctions to deal with youth who have special needs. Clinical examples and sample evaluations add to the depth of the author's analysis.

In this book . . .

How Aboriginal peoples confront and create justice in an urban environment
Where do healing, tradition, personal and community identity, and self-government enter into this process?
What constitutes a community?
What role should the community play in delivering and shaping justice for its members?
Diversion and the CPP in Toronto

In this book . . .

Special circumstances facing Aboriginal youth
Fetal alcohol syndrome and effect
Restorative justice techniques
Innovations used in England, Australia, and New Zealand
Innovative Canadian approaches
Theories about crime and punishment
The provisions of Youth Criminal Justice Act

In this book:

The history of academic freedom
Can corporate donors and partners have an impact on academic freedom?
Can administrative decisions control professors?
Threats to academic freedom
The role of media in creating public perceptions of academic freedom

In this book . . .

How the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other human rights legislation apply to education
What freedom of conscience and religion, and freedom of expression and assembly mean in a school
Discrimination and sexual harassment in schools
The rights of disabled students
The right to search and detain students and seize their personal effects