Sentences with phrase «of young offenders»

Four upstate juvenile facilities will get federal oversight and new restrictions on the physical restraint of young offenders.

Many of these young offenders did not mean to cause significant harm.

There was also disagreement, he said, on an element of the effort to raise the state's age of criminal responsibility to 18: who should be in charge of managing post-release supervision of young offenders who emerge from «hybrid» detention facilities, which according to the original plan would be overseen by the state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision and the Office of Children and Family Services.

Geraldine not only involves fathers successfully in courses for the parents of young offenders but also works regularly with Asian dads in schools and community settings.

«You weren't supposed to take pictures of young offenders.

A 2010 Prison Reform Trust report shows almost a 50 p er cent reduction in the reoffending rates of young offenders that took part in Northern Ireland's restorative justice programme.

When I visited Manchester last week, one of the problems the chairman of the police authority raised with me was the apparent need for anonymity in the cases of young offenders involved in the disorder.

So when I chaired Cobra on Friday, I asked that the CPS reinforce that prosecutors can and should request, in the public interest, that the Courts lift the anonymity of young offenders once they have been found guilty.

A damning audit of young offenders» institutes (YOI's) has revealed «extraordinary squalor and institutional brutality».

Local leaders say a new initiative called U-CAN has the potential to change the lives of young offenders.

The Tories quibbled over whether the period between arrest and sentencing of young offenders had been halved as Labour promised.

The center is one of the four facilities across the state that will be expanded to help house an influx of young offenders impacted by the state's Raise the Age legislation.

Littered with pop songs, a tendency towards cultural and generational stereotypes initially threatens to undermine the authenticity of The Young Offenders.

Others stressed the greater accountability aspects of the Young Offenders Act, the benefit of having one court deal with all young offenders and the developing expertise of the criminal law judges of the Provincial Court in this area.

The first UFC established in Hamilton in 1977 had been given jurisdiction over juvenile delinquency proceedings and this continued with the introduction of the Young Offenders Act of 1984 — at least for youth up to their 16th birthdays.

Courts have distinguished between mandatory bans, e.g. concerning identification of young offenders, and discretionary bans, e.g. to protect sensitive parties not mentioned in statutes.

Officers should be just as zealous in guarding the constitutional rights of young offenders as they are vulnerable populations that are already subject to disproportionate treatment in our justice system.

AB's detention was declared to be unlawful by the High Court, as they determined that it was in breach of the Young Offender Institution Rules.

Legal Education, under director Mark Asbell, foresaw a role for SLS in this area pending the proclamation of the Young Offenders Act.

The criminal system doesn't need to be similarly tuned to fit the needs of a young offender who wants to give their evidence by way of txt message.

There are particular difficulties in giving an indication in respect of a young offender — under 18 at the date of his plea of guilty or his conviction — because there is the additional option, which is not available when dealing with an adult, of imposing an extended sentence in respect of a serious specified offence.

Probation officers may oversee the probation and rehabilitation of young offenders / juvenile delinquents.

(8) I. W. Shields, «The Use of the Young Offender - Level of Service Inventory with Adolescents,» The IARCA Journal on Community Corrections, 5 (1993): 10 - 26.

special attention to nonjudgmental acceptance of young offenders and their responsibly hedonistic goals;

Popular assumptions about the near - universal resistance of young offenders to therapy appear unfounded.

The all - too - common occurrence of young offenders arriving at the practitioner's office, fully aware of their diagnoses but ignorant of strategies for change, validates the importance of this assumption.

The primary aim of this study was to investigate the schooling history of young offenders detained in Greek Correctional Centers in order to examine the extent to which learning disabilities may co-exist with psychosocial adversity and / or specific learning disabilities, in particular, attention problems.

Results: Schooling his - tory of the young offenders was characterized by low attendance, high levels of dropouts, grade retention and academic failure.

Most of the time, parents of the young offenders are found to be agriculture labourers.

Its interim report notes that 70 per cent of young offenders come from single parent families, and a third of prisoners and more than half of young offenders have been through the care system.

The new unit merges the responsibilities of the Youth Justice and Children Unit and those of the Young Offender Education Team of the Offenders Learning and Skills Unit of the former Department for Education and Skills.

(b) within the meaning of subsection 2 (1) of the Young Offenders Act, chapter Y - 1 of the Revised Statutes of Canada, 1985, unless they are convicted of the offence in ordinary court within the meaning of that subsection.

(ii) a place of secure custody designated under section 24.1 of the Young Offenders Act (Canada), whether in accordance with section 88 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada) or otherwise,

(3) If a court makes a direction under paragraph 11 (4)(b) of the Young Offenders Act (Canada), the Attorney General may direct the Corporation under subsection 11 (5) of that Act to provide legal aid services, in accordance with the court direction, to the young person who is the subject of the court direction.