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Young offender law resources

Books
Canadian
o   Anand, S., Children and the Law: Essays in Honour of Professor Nicholas Bala (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2011)
o   * Bala et al., Young Offenders Service (looseleaf)
o   Bala &  Anand, Youth Criminal Justice Law, 3rd ed. (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2012) 
o   * Bloomenfeld et al., Annotated Youth Criminal Justice Act Service (Markham: Butterworths, looseleaf)
o   Davis-Barron, S., Canadian youth & the criminal law: one hundred years of youth justice legislation in Canada (Markham: LexisNexis, 2009)
o   Doob & Cisaroni, Responding to Youth Crime in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004)
o   Doyle, Farrell & Sheppard, For the Record: the Youth Criminal Justice Act: a New Law for Canadian Youth: a New Collaborative Approach, 2nd ed. (St.John's, Nfld: Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland, 2003)
o   Green, Gordon & Healy, Tough on Kids: Rethinking Approaches to Youth Justice (Saskatoon: Purich Publishing, 2003)
o   Halsbury’s laws of Canada, Youth Justice (Markham: LexisNexis , 2006)
o   * Harris, P., Youth Criminal Justice Act Manual (Aurora: Canada Law Book, looseleaf)
o   Harris, P., Young Offenders Act Manual (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 2002)
o   Harvey & Dauns, Sexual Offences Against Children and the Criminal Process, 2nd ed. (Markham: Butterworths, 2001)
o   Kelly &Totten, When children kill: a social psychological study of youth homicide(Peterborough: Broadview Press, 2002)
o   Mann, R., Juvenile Crime and Delinquency: A Turn of the Century Reader (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2000)
o   Maxim & Whitehead, Youth in Conflict With the Law, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Nelson, 2004)
o   Olivo, Cotter, Bromwich, Youth and the Law: New Approaches to Criminal Justice and Child Protection, 2nd ed. (Toronto: Emond Montgomery, 2007)
o   Platt, Young Offenders Law in Canada, 2nd ed. (Markham: Butterworths, 1995)
o   Scott, S., Defending Young Offender Cases (Toronto: Carswell, 1997)
o   Tustin & Lutes, A Guide to the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Markham: LexisNexis Butterworths, 2010)
o   Vandergoot, M., Justice for young offenders: their needs, our responses (Saskatoon: Purich Pub., 2006)
 
English
o   Junger-Tas & Decker, International Handbook of Juvenile Justice (Dodrecht: Springer, 2006)
 
American
o   Scott & Steinberg, Rethinking juvenile justice (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008)
 
Other countries
o   Carrington & Pereira, Offending youth: sex, crime and justice (Sydney: Federation Press, 2009)
 
Websites
Provincial Court of British Columbia, Criminal and Youth Matters Useful Links
 
The People's Law School. Consequences of a Youth Record
 
Canadian Bar Association: Young Offenders
 
YCJA: Youth Criminal Justice Act
 
British Columbia. Ministry of the Attorney General. Youth Court Justice...And You
 
University of Alberta. Youth Criminal Justice Act FAQs
 
British Columbia. Ministry of Children and Family Development. Youth Justice
 
University of British Columbia Legal Aid Manual: Youth Justice
 
Justice for Children and Youth
 
New South Wales. Law Reform Commission, Young Offenders (Sydney: The Commission, 2005).