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Tough on Kids. Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice

Tough on Kids. Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice Book Review Ross Gordon Green and Kearney F. Healy, Tough on Kids. Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Purich, 2003, 271 pages Ross Green and Kearney F. Healy are criminal defence lawyers widely experienced in defending young people in the juvenile justice system in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. They have spent hundreds of hours listening to their stories, to their par- ents and teachers, the police, their victims, family and friends. They are convinced there are solutions to youth crime and in this book they present these solutions, “many of which appear obvious, but you may be surprised at how infrequently they are being applied”. The problem of juvenile justice described in this book is very similar to the prob- lem described in much of the current literature. It is certainly a familiar one in the Australian context: the over-representation of Aboriginal peoples, the disabled and the poor in custody, the high levels of recidivism, the sense of an inability to make changes to the system by people who work in it, the high levels of violence that chil- dren learn to receive, accept and then use on others. The authors are convinced that, because http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Children's Rights Brill

Tough on Kids. Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice

The International Journal of Children's Rights , Volume 12 (2): 173 – Jan 1, 2004

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Brill
Copyright
© 2004 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0927-5568
eISSN
1571-8182
DOI
10.1163/1571818041904317
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Book Review Ross Gordon Green and Kearney F. Healy, Tough on Kids. Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice , Saskatoon, Saskatchewan: Purich, 2003, 271 pages Ross Green and Kearney F. Healy are criminal defence lawyers widely experienced in defending young people in the juvenile justice system in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan. They have spent hundreds of hours listening to their stories, to their par- ents and teachers, the police, their victims, family and friends. They are convinced there are solutions to youth crime and in this book they present these solutions, “many of which appear obvious, but you may be surprised at how infrequently they are being applied”. The problem of juvenile justice described in this book is very similar to the prob- lem described in much of the current literature. It is certainly a familiar one in the Australian context: the over-representation of Aboriginal peoples, the disabled and the poor in custody, the high levels of recidivism, the sense of an inability to make changes to the system by people who work in it, the high levels of violence that chil- dren learn to receive, accept and then use on others. The authors are convinced that, because

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Published: Jan 1, 2004

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