Learning Disabilities and the Young Offender: Arrest to Disposition

• NCJ Number: 108409
• Editor(s): H Stutt
• Date Published: 1986
• Length: 80 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; Canadian Assoc for Children and Adults With Learning Disabilities
• Publication Type: Reference Material
• Language: English
• Country: Canada

Annotation

This handbook discusses relationships between learning disabilities and young people who come before the courts, with particular attention focused on legislative procedures, and programs used in Canada.

Abstract

Individual authors discuss definitions and evaluation procedures related to identification of the learning disabled, examining the role played by members of the professions concerned, and theories concerning learning disabilities -- their causes and their relationship to the young offender. Other essays discuss the Young Offenders Act, which represents a shift from a treatment-oriented approach to a rights-responsibility model, and which requires the court and its officers to consider the particular problems of learning disabled young prisoners. The final paper draws upon the Learning Disabled Young Offender in Ontario Training Schools Project Report, 1985, to discuss the question of provision of appropriate alternative placements.