Little is known about the prevalence and nature of paraphilic interests in the Hong Kong young adult population. This study explores the psychosocial facto
The results are analysed with reference to nine conditions: level of offending (total numbers of offences and offenders); single/repeat offenders; gender; ethnicity; offence classification; outcome; context (including temporal conditions such as school holidays); whether the offender accepted or denied...
the pool of young people within the youth justice system is no longer “watered down” by less serious or “adolescent-limited” youth offenders (Moffitt2003). This phenomenon has highlighted the complex needs of those individuals who remain in the youth justice system, many of ...
► Older participants are likely to hold punitive attitudes towards young offenders. ► The support for social intervention varies according to the years working as OSWs.关键词: Outreach social workers At-risk youth Attitudes Young offenders Hong Kong Chinese ...
While the official language used to describe restorative initiatives varies across states and territories, the most common form is a meeting or conference between young offenders and their victims (most commonly known as a family group or youth justice conference). During the past decade, an ...
A lot has been written about what works in interventions with offenders (e.g. Andrews and Bonta 2008; McIvor and Raynor 2008; McNeill et al. 2010). In recent years there have also been a small number of studies focusing on what works in the routine supervision of offenders on probation....
The offenders should be fined heavily to discourage them from committing the same offense in the future. Random checkpoints should be continuously maintained to thwart any escape plot by the young riders. Furthermore, extra traffic policemen can permanently be deputed at those random checkpoints to...
Risk and Resource Assessment Form, FER-R, the acronym in Spanish for “Ficha de Evaluación de Riesgos y Recursos”, is an inventory of structured professional judgment that measures criminogenic risks, static and dynamic, along with adaptation resources in young offenders. It was developed in Ch...
if they (i) did not refer to the participation of children and young people in the justice system; (ii) did not refer to professionals in the justice system on this same topic; (iii) and only referred to the health and school context as well as studies focused on young offenders. ...
Women also reported victimization because their partners felt disrespected and needed to restore justice, and because of inequality in the relationship, with older males dominating younger women [28]. Vulnerability also played a key role in women's experiences of victimization. Many of the women ...