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Freedom from Fear - Volume 2017, Issue 13, 2017
Volume 2017, Issue 13, 2017
This journal aims to contribute to the advancement of knowledge and awareness of the international community's priority issues in the field of justice, crime prevention and human rights. The Magazine pursues the promotion of innovative dialogue by spreading awareness, creating consensus and a sense of shared responsibility of the problems that affect the global community. As a forum for long-term change, the Magazine endeavors to promote democratic values, civil stability, and aid the international community in developing actions towards greater peace, justice and security for all members of social, civil and political society.
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No place for young people
Author: Cindy J. SmithIn this very moment there are young people who are leaving home to build a future in the best universities of the world, but there are also young people crossing the desert to join groups of fighters, and young people trying to cross the sea in small boats to escape their harsh circumstances and hope to find something better.
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Responding to gangs
Author: Scott H. DeckerThis essay begins with a simple premise: if we don’t understand our problems we aren’t going to be able to solve them. This premise applies to challenges in a variety of fields: medicine, social services, education and juvenile justice. Criminal justice is replete with examples of well-intentioned efforts to curb gang crime and victimization that are based on incomplete or false understanding of the problem. Such examples include interventions that lack careful attention to implementation, are built on stereotypes or partial problem descriptions or lack sufficient “dose size” to make an impact. Oftentimes interventions are guided by media stereotypes rather than scientific approaches.
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Brainwashing young people into violent extremist cults
Author: Steven HassanThe phenomenon of people and organizations using “undue influence” techniques to recruit and indoctrinate young (and old) people has reached epidemic proportions. While victim-centered approaches are now being discussed and utilized in trafficking realms, little attention has been given to the actual techniques and behavioral methods that can be used to enslave a person into a new “pseudo-identity” which is dependent and obedient to their controller.
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Why children are leaving their homes? Unaccompanied children in Europe: What to learn from them?
Author: Nadine Lyamouri-BajjaMore than 100,000 unaccompanied minors - mainly from Afghanistan, Syria, Eritrea and Somalia - applied for asylum in 78 countries in 2015 (UNICEF).
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Reintegration of minors, affected by conflicts. Main obstacles and good practices
Author: Renate WinterThey make great soldiers as they can be fearless fighters. Their missing education leads them to take huge risks as they can be convinced of their invincibility to bullets or injury and encouraged to think that their actions substitute for playing games. Calls to martyrdom and heroic deaths, fighting for a region or the fatherland are considered a romantic and exciting attraction to young and easily influenced children.
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The rule of law in cyberspace is at risk
Author: Alexander SegerCriminal justice authorities need to be able to secure electronic evidence, including on servers in the cloud, to protect society and individuals against crime online. The powers to obtain such evidence must to be subject to data protection and other safeguards. Proposals to move ahead are now available.
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Seeing the rights through children’s eyes
Author: United NationsTo mark the Universal Children’s Day 2016, 200 children from any countries visited the United Nations campus in Turin.
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Youth for youth - We care, we act - European Union aid volunteers
Author: United NationsThe European Union (EU) Aid Volunteers is an initiative that offers European citizens from the age of 18 the opportunity to get involved in humanitarian aid projects in the Global South. In particular, the EU Aid Volunteers programme offers:
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Unlocking the power of youth
Author: Ahmad AlhendawiFor far too long, there was tendency to portray young women and men either as angry trouble-makers, or as photogenic, helpless victims. This is a false narrative.
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The process to radicalization and violentization
Author: Mariaeugenia BenatoDuring these last years, some countries around the world have been attacked by terrorists’ violence and the number of citizens who choose to become foreign fighters has increased.
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Diversity: An impediment within the justice system?
Author: Ginevra OssolaPeople with different backgrounds, with different experiences and heritages, bring different perspectives to the judgement of a case, impacting differently the decision-making process. How is this diversity dealt with? Human beings differ from one another by race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and many more. Amongst others, stereotypical ideas of race and gender have been distilled into everyday rhetoric, in a way that shapes people’s identities on societal expectations rather than on lived experiences. Although very little is true and natural about these stereotypical constructions of boys and girls, the appropriation of these notions has led to a real damage and distortion in people’s identities.
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The gross overrepresentation of LGBT youth in the juvenile justice system
Author: Katherine RankinAlthough the term LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) may be new, the idea behind is anything but new. Same-sex relations can be traced back to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, however homosexual relations were not accepted until much more recently. In fact, the term homosexual was not used in the U.S. until James G. Kiernan referenced it in a Chicago medical journal in 1892, when equating it to a sexual perversion. In the 1920s LGB characters starting appearing on Broadway and, as a response, The New York Legislature banned the presentation of ‘sex perversion’ on stages. World War II helped to foster the creation of LGBT identity and communities, however the first declaration of the acronym seems unclear. The terminology is ever changing. It began as LGB, then LGBT, next LGBTQ, and most recently LGBTQIA (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex and ally/asexual). This article will use the acronym LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender), as that is what is most commonly used in the data and literature.
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