European football leagues’ popularity and increased internet access make football betting attractive among young people in Nigeria.
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The relationship between street slang used by young people and secret codes deployed by gang members is not always straightforward.
This photo from May 2018 shows Cyntoia Brown at her clemency hearing at the Tennessee Prison for Women in Nashville, Tenn. On Jan. 7, 2019, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted executive clemency to Brown, serving a life sentence for a murder that happened after she was forced into sex work.
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Cyntoia Brown has been granted clemency for killing a man when she was a teenager and forced into the sex trade. The case showed why the justice system must stop punishing women for defending themselves.
If the UK is to break the cycle of reoffending, it needs to meet the basic needs of young people in prison and respect the basic human right of adequate nutrition.
Politicians like to appear tough on crime in election years. But Victoria’s move to require youth offenders to wear electronic monitoring devices may not have a real impact.
Violence in UK schools is at record levels, but expelling pupils isn’t always the answer.
Victoria has the lowest youth crime rate of any of the states, despite being the only one that does not have a police in schools program.
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The police in schools model abolished in Victoria in 2006 represents an outdated, paternalistic approach to youth crime and would not likely reduce youth crime rates if we brought it back now.
Research has found police in schools programs can work, where the focus is on the safety and education of young people.
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Tim Nicholls said the introduction of a youth curfew in the WA suburb of Northbridge ‘saw a dramatic drop in crime and a reduction in the anti-social behaviour of young people’. Is that right?
How young men justify their need to carry a weapon.
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Jeff Sessions was met with considerable skepticism when he announced his desire to revive D.A.R.E. But it turns out that the current program is nothing like the ineffective D.A.R.E. of the ‘80’s and '90’s.
Killer Sean Mercer, played by Paddy Rowan in Little Boy Blue.
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In the age of social media and online self-promotion, being the subject of a moral panic can not only be a source of pride, but also an inducement to offend.