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Over the last ten years, the number of street youth in Canadian cities has increased significantly. Concerns have been raised about how best to manage this group, many of whom are homeless, drug-addicted, HIV-infected and/or involved in the sextrade. It has fallen to provinvical governments to respond with newlegislation and policy to regulate these "new street urchins", and the provincial statutes are similar, in many respects, to legislatino linked with child-saving reforms at the beginning of the 20th Century. Ironically, this old legislation was introducedto deal with a comparable group of troublesome, urban, "streeturchins". The owrk of Cohen's (1985) and especially his notions of patterns of social control ar used to explain the unintended consequences of reforms that began in the 1960s and that haveresulted in the new provincial youth control legislation.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Youth Justice and the New Street Urchins in Canada
• Subtitle: An Historical Analysis of Youth Justice Legislation in Canada
• Author: Kathy Powelson
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9783639013894
• ISBN: 3639013891
• ID: 06811393
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.
• Weight: 191 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 7 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. May 2008

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