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u ve ni le J us t ic e J u ve ni le J us t ic e J International Perspectives, Models, and Trends Edited by John A. Winterdyk Boca Raton London New York CRC Press is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business CRC Press Taylor & Francis Group 6000 Broken Sound Parkway NW, Suite 300 Boca Raton, FL 33487-2742 © 2015 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC CRC Press is an imprint of Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business No claim to original U.S. Government works Version Date: 20140715 International Standard Book Number-13: 978-1-4665-7968-2 (eBook - PDF) This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data and information, but the author and publisher cannot assume responsibility for the valid- ity of all materials or the consequences of their use. 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CCC is a not-for-profit organization that provides licenses and registration for a variety of users. For organizations that have been granted a photocopy license by the CCC, a separate system of payment has been arranged. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at http://www.taylorandfrancis.com and the CRC Press Web site at http://www.crcpress.com Contents Contributors vii 1 Introduction: Juvenile Justice in the International Arena 1 JOHN A. WINTERDYK 2 Of Justice and Juveniles in Austria: Achievements and Challenges 25 KARIN BRUCKMÜLLER AND STEFAN SCHUMANN 3 Youth Justice and Youth Crime in Australia 55 MICHAEL O’CONNELL AND ELIZABETH O’CONNELL 4 Administration of Juvenile Justice in Brazil: Recent Advances and Remaining Challenges 89 ALINE YAMAMOTO, JULIANA CARDOSO BENEDETTI, KARYNA BATISTA SPOSATO, MARISA MENESES DE ANDRADE, AND NATÁLIA LAGO 5 Juvenile Justice and Young Offenders: A Canadian Overview 107 JOHN A. WINTERDYK AND ANNE MILLER 6 China’s Juvenile Justice: A System in Transition 137 RUOHUI ZHAO, HONGWEI ZHANG, AND JIANHONG LIU 7 The Iranian Juvenile Criminal Justice System: An Overview 163 TAHMOORES BASHIRIYEH AND MOHAMMAD ALI RAJAB 8 Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Crime: An Overview of Japan 179 YOKOYAMA MINORU 9 Child Justice in Namibia: Back to Square One? 209 STEFAN SCHULZ v vi Contents 10 Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Crime in the Netherlands 239 HENK B. FERWERDA 11 The Scottish Juvenile Justice System: Policy and Practice 263 LESLEY McARA AND SUSAN McVIE 12 Juvenile Justice in Slovakia 295 DAGMAR KUSA AND ANNE M. NURSE 13 South Africa’s New Child Justice System 321 ANN SKELTON AND R. MORGAN COURTENAY 14 Juvenile Justice: England and Wales 343 LORAINE GELSTHORPE AND VICKY KEMP 15 Juvenile Justice in the United States 369 PETER J. BENEKOS AND ALIDA V. MERLO Contributors Tahmoores Bashiriyeh Vicky Kemp Department of Criminal Law and Criminology School of Law University of Tehran (Formerly) University of Nottingham Tehran, Iran Nottingham, England Juliana Cardoso Benedetti Dagmar Kusa Chief International Advisor Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of Bratislava, Slovakia the Republic São Paulo, Brazil Natália Lago Youth Project Advisor in the NGO Peter J. Benekos “Ação Educativa” Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology São Paulo, Brazil Mercyhurst University Erie, Pennsylvania Jianhong Liu Department of Sociology Karin Bruckmüller Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Department for Criminal Law University of Macau Criminal Procedure Law Macau, China Philosophy and Sociology of Law Ludwig-Maximilians-University Lesley McAra Munich, Germany School of Law University of Edinburgh and Old College, South Bridge Department for Criminal Justice Practice and Edinburgh, Scotland Medical Criminal Law Susan McVie Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria School of Law University of Edinburgh R. Morgan Courtenay Old College Centre for Child Law Edinburgh, Scotland University of Pretoria Alida V. Merlo Pretoria, South Africa Indiana University of Pennsylvania Marisa Meneses de Andrade Department of Criminology Universidade Tiradentes Indiana, Pennsylvania Aracaju, Brazil Anne Miller Henk B. Ferwerda Constellation Consulting Group Bureau Beke Calgary, Alberta, Canada Arnhem, The Netherlands Yokoyama Minoru Loraine Gelsthorpe Faculty of Law Institute of Criminology Kokugakuin University University of Cambridge Tokyo, Japan Cambridge, England vii viii Contributors Anne M. Nurse Karyna Batista Sposato Department of Sociology and Anthropology Department of Law The College of Wooster Federal University of Sergipe Wooster, Ohio Sergipe, Brazil and Elizabeth O’Connell Helping Young People Achieve (HYPA) Universidade Tiradente SYC Ltd. Aracaju, Brazil Adelaide, South Australia, Australia John A. Winterdyk Michael O’Connell Department of Justice Studies Commissioner for Victims’ Rights Mount Royal University Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Calgary, Alberta, Canada Mohammad Ali Rajab Aline Yamamoto Department of Criminal Law and Criminology Lawyer and Coordinator of Access to Justice and University of Tehran Violence Against Women at Brazil’s Secretariat Tehran, Iran for Policies for Women São Paulo, Brazil Stefan Schulz Department of Legal Studies Hongwei Zhang School of Human Sciences Law School Polytechnic of Namibia Guangxi University Windhoek, Namibia Nanning, China Stefan Schumann Ruohui Zhao Institute for Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Department of Sociology Johannes Kepler University Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Linz, Austria University of Macau Macau, China Ann Skelton Centre for Child Law University of Pretoria Pretoria, South Africa
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