Trends in juvenile crime and punishment: The United States has a higher rate of juvenile crime than other western countries / Cully Stimson ; Balkans grapple with exploding youth crime / Sabina Niksic ; British rates of girl gang crime are exploding / Paul Bracchi ; Some Central American countries treat youth gang crime as a threat to regional security / Peter Peetz ; In Europe, juvenile crime is increasingly prominent in the public consciousness / Jennifer Abramsohn ; The United States is criminalizing typical childhood behavior / Chris McGreal -- Risk factors for juvenile crime: New Zealand's juvenile crime is caused by multiple risk factors / Andrew Becroft ; The Dutch failure to integrate immigrant groups has led to an increase in juvenile crime / Soeren Kern ; Brazil's drug Mafia is recruiting impoverished children / Jens Glüsing ; Palestinian girls turn to crime to escape troubled family lives / Anjuli Bedi ; The Australian juvenile system is discriminatory against Aboriginal youth / Kathy Marks ; Scotland should be more responsive to the needs of at-risk children / Rory Cahill ; The Caribbean youth crime rate is affected by the region's social and economic problems / Jeevan Robinson -- Debates over the juvenile justice system: Tanzanian juvenile institutions may be doing more harm than good: Sharifa Kalokola ; Ireland should not be incarcerating children in adult institutions / Breda O'Brien ; Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan should end the juvenile death penalty / Human Rights Watch ; Palestinian youths are being mistreated in Israeli detention / Harriet Sherwood ; Argentina considers lowering the age of criminal responsibility / Marcela Valente ; England's juvenile justice system is cruel and counterproductive / Rod Morgan -- Juvenile justice system reforms: Federal legislation tough on young criminals / Anna Mehler Paperny ; China plans major reforms of its juvenile justice system / Frank Ching ; Indonesia is on the verge of introducing a restorative justice system for juvenile offenders / Leopold Sudaryono ; Several nations in Central Asia and Eastern Europe have made major juvenile justice system reforms / Daniel O'Donnell ; Ukraine is creating a full-fledged youth justice system / Vyacheslav Panasyuk. --
Summary:
Examines the issue of juvenile crime from a variety of international perspectives.
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