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The Call to Order: Families, Responsibility and Juvenile Crime Control

Hil, Richard
June 4, 2015

Source: (1998) Journal of Australian Studies. (December): 101

Australian juvenile justice has placed much emphasis on the family as a source of juvenile crime. Furthermore, there is a growing concern over the decline of the modern family and a shift towards community-based crime prevention. Consequently the government has placed the problem of crime and deliquency on the failures of modern family.

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