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Youth Recidivism: A Qualitative Study Of Risk And Resilience, Jesse M. Near Ms.
Youth Recidivism: A Qualitative Study Of Risk And Resilience, Jesse M. Near Ms.
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Abstract
The rates of reoffending for Ontario youth are high and come at a significant cost to both society and the youths involved. Research to date has explored risk and protective factors. Despite this progress, the relationships between these factors and recidivism are not well understood. Knowing that a youth is exposed to any of these identified risk or protective factors does little to explain why these factors do not affect all youth equally and why some youths reoffend while others do not. Resilience theory has increasingly been used as the framework to explore the concept of recidivism. The present …