Oscola referencing – footnotes and bibliography
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Justified
Must use legal sources including international instruments and academic research. Case laws.
Kilkelly and Bergin, Advancing Children’s Rights in Detention: A Model for International Reform, Bristol University Press, 2022.
Kilkelly, Ursula, et al. Children in Conflict with the Law : Rights, Research and Progressive Youth Justice, Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ucc.idm.oclc.org/lib/uccie-ebooks/detail.action?docID=30651892.
Responses to serious offending by children : principles, practice and global perspectives / edited by Nessa Lynch, Yannick van den Brink, and Louise Forde. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
Nowak, UN Global Study on Children Deprived of Liberty, 2019, available at https://omnibook.com/global-study-2019/liberty/367c63.xcml.
Liefaard, Deprivation of Liberty of Children in Light of International Human Rights Law and Standards, Intersentia, 2008.
Lynch, ven den Brink, Forde (eds.) Responses to serious offending by children: principles, practice and global perspectives, Routledge, 2022.
Case, S. and Hazel, N. (2023) Child First Developing a New Youth Justice System. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
O’Brien, W. and Foussard, C. (2020) Violence Against Children in the Criminal Justice System: Global Perspectives on Prevention. Violence Against Children in the Criminal Justice System: Global Perspectives on Prevention. Milton: Routledge, p. 262.
Useful Websites
Ireland
http://www.oberstown.com (Oberstown Children Detention Campus)
http://www.iprt.ie (Irish Penal Reform Trust)
http://www.justice.ie (Department of Justice and Equality)
Goldson, B. (2013). ‘Unsafe, Unjust and Harmful to Wider Society’: Grounds for Raising the Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility in England and Wales. Youth Justice, 13(2), 111–130.
Schmidt, E. P., Rap, S. E., & Liefaard, T. (2021). Young Adults in the Justice System: The Interplay between Scientific Insights, Legal Reform and Implementation in Practice in The Netherlands. Youth Justice, 21(2), 172–191.
Additional Reading
Yolisha Singh. (2023). Old enough to offend but not to buy a hamster: the argument for raising the minimum age of criminal responsibility, Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 30:1, 51-67.
Delmage, E. (2013). The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: A Medico-Legal Perspective. Youth Justice, 13(2), 102–110.
Brown, A., & Charles, A. (2021). The Minimum Age of Criminal Responsibility: The Need for a Holistic Approach. Youth Justice, 21(2), 153–171.
Farrington, D.P., Loeber, R., and Howell, J.C. (2017). Increasing the minimum age for adult court, Is it Desirable and What Are the Effects? Criminology and Public Policy, 16(1), 83–92.
McDiarmid, C. 2013. An Age of Complexity: Children and Criminal Responsibility in Law. Youth Justice, 13(2), 145.
Issues
Consider the international c
International
http://www.jlc.org (Juvenile Law Center)
http://www.cclp.org/ (Center for Children’s Law and Policy)
https://www.cycj.org.uk (Children and Young People’s Centre for Justice – Scotland)
http://www.ijjo.org (International Juvenile Justice Observatory)
http://www.defenceforchildren.org/ (Defence for Children International)