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Tables of Contents for Youth Injustice
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Dedication
v
Acknowledgements
vii
About the Editors
ix
Introduction
xv
PART ONE THE STATE OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Youth justice research in Canada: An assessment
3
10
Changes in police charging of young offenders in Ontario and Saskatchewan after 1984
13
12
Trends in youth crime in Canada, 1977--1996
25
32
Trends in youth crime: Some evidence pointing to increases in the severity and volume of violence on the part of young people
57
8
Interprovincial variation in the use of youth court
65
14
PART TWO YOUTH DEVIANCE AND THE STATE
Marijuana, juveniles, and the police: What high-school students believe about detection and enforcement
79
22
Criminal business organizations, street gangs and `wanna be' groups: A Vancouver perspective
101
24
The selling of innocence: The gestalt of danger in the lives of young prostitutes
125
26
Deterrence and homeless male street youths
151
34
Squeegee Wars: The State versus Street Youth
185
20
PART THREE VIOLENCE, DRUG USE, AND INJUSTICE
Is the ``quality'' of youth violence becoming more serious?
205
10
Factors affecting custodial dispositions under the Young Offenders Act
215
36
Bad, sad and rejected: The lives of aggressive children
251
12
Adolescent drug use and a general theory of crime: An analysis of a theoretical integration
263
20
Justice for Canadian girls: A 1990's update
283
30
Factors affecting the referral of young offenders for medical and psychological assessment under the Young Offenders Act
313
32
PART FOUR YOUNG PERSONS AND THE COURTS
Out of the carceral straightjacket: Under twelves and the law
345
26
``Lock 'em up'': Attitudes towards punishing juvenile offenders
371
24
Young people's knowledge of the Young Offenders Act and the youth justice system
395
28
The incarceration of female young offenders: Protection for whom?
423
20
Understanding public views of youth crime and the youth justice system
443
22
PART FIVE TRENDS AND ISSUES IN YOUTH INJUSTICE
Young people's understanding and assertion of their rights to silence and legal counsel
465
18
Recidivism in youth court: An examination of the impact of age, gender and prior record
483
28
What's intermediate about `intermediate' sanctions?: The case of young offender dispositions in Canada
511
22
Risk for court contact and predictors of an early age for a first court contact among a sample of high risk youths: A survival analysis approach
533
28
Get tough or get smart? Options for Canada's youth justice system in the twenty-first century
561