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Youth Justice Division

• Cambridge University: Women, Crime and Criminal Justice Practice
  http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/events/conferences/diversity-diversion/cccjpconfprovprog.pdf I presented at the Women, Crime and Criminal Justice practice conference in Cambridge in January. Although, I presented at the Youth Justice Board convention in 2010, it was the fist-time I had presented a research paper at an academic conference. I thoroughly enjoyed the conference, there were some fantastic...
  
  
• Keele University Criminology Studentships
  Research Topic Research Institute for Social Sciences PhD Studentships Reference number: RISS 2012/13 Abstract Applications are invited for studentships within any of the 5 Centres of the Research Institute.  These Centres are: Economics and Management Law, Ethics and Society Politics, International Relations and Environment Psychological Research Social Policy Keele University...
  
  
• Sean Creaney will be presenting a paper at Social Work conference
  SwanConf2012 The Seventh Annual Social Work Action Network Conference (SWAN) will be hosted by Liverpool Hope University on 30th and 31st March 2012     Urgent: Do you require accommodation for a group? Please scroll down for accommodation amendments.         Cuts, crisis, and resistance – building alliances...
  
  
• Crime Talk.org.uk
  CrimeTalk An educational resource at the heart of public debate, criminological research and professional practice…… Youth Justice Division   Youth Justice Division Youth Justice Discussion Blog by Sean Creaney Extract from a paper I am presenting next month at the University of Cambridge Moreover youth justice professionals provide minimal consideration towards gender-specific...
  
  
• Extract from a paper I am presenting next month at the University of Cambridge
  Moreover youth justice professionals provide minimal consideration towards gender-specific matters, and what’s more, tend to statistically ‘over predict’ the offending behaviour of girls, resulting in the deployment of more ‘intrusive’ measures (Bateman, 2008; Nacro, 2008; Sharpe, 2011). With regard to early-preventative measures, girls have continually been referred to the YISP...