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Lambie, Ian; Ioane, Julia; Randell, Isabel; Seymour, Fred – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: To assess the postintervention arson recidivism and other offending rates of a group of 182 firesetting children and adolescents referred to the New Zealand Fire Awareness and Intervention Program (FAIP) over a follow-up period of 10 years. To investigate predictors of offending behaviour as well as variables associated with previous…
Descriptors: Intervention, Recidivism, Crime, Children
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Fergusson, David M.; Boden, Joseph M.; Horwood, L. John – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 2006
Objective: This paper examines whether exposure to interparental violence in childhood predicts subsequent involvement in interpartner violence and violent crime after controlling for potentially confounding factors. Method: The investigation analyses data from the Christchurch Health and Development Study, a prospective, longitudinal study of a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims of Crime, Young Adults, At Risk Persons
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Keown, Robin – Kairaranga, 2006
The issue of physical punishment is a particularly controversial one at the moment as child advocates are engaged in a struggle to persuade the New Zealand government to repeal a defence in law (section 59 of the 1961 "Crimes Act") which justifies parents hitting their children provided the force used is "reasonable in the…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Nonverbal Communication, Foreign Countries, Child Advocacy