Engendering the Agenda: Girls, Young Women and Youth Justice

Resettlement of Girls and Young Women

The use of custody for girls and young women 30 Women over 18 31 More complex needs 32 Relocation and the strain on relationships 33 Evidence of effective justice work with girls and young women 34 The relationship with professionals 34 The importanc eof victimisation 35 A strengths-based approach 36 Holistic and gender responsive care 36 Evidence of effective resettlement with adult females 37...

Current Directions in Youth Justice and Young Offender Programming

There are few areas of practice in the criminal justice arena quite so contentious as how to respond to young people who commit serious and/or repeated offenses. Our views about what should be considered as appropriate responses (both in terms of the type of sentence that should be handed down by the courts and the programs that should be offered) are determined by our beliefs about the degree ...

FGM: the mutilation of girls and young women must stop.

Delivering an action agenda for nutrition interventions addressing adolescent girls and young women: priorities for implementation and research.

Adolescent nutritional behaviors are assuming considerable importance in nutrition interventions given their important relationships with medium- and long-term outcomes. This is the period when young people undergo major anatomical and physiological maturational changes in preparation for adulthood. Nutritional requirements during puberty are higher during adolescence than during the prepuberta...

PrEP introduction for adolescent girls and young women.