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It is too easy, and simplistic, for communities to view youth offending as evidence of teenagers “gone bad”
An article about youth offending from Youth Court Judge John Walker: “There is a very clear co-relation between exposure to family violence and going on… https://t.co/ZYwUKszAsv — WAVES Trust (@WAVES_Trust) March 20, 2018 It is too easy, and simplistic, for communities to view youth offending as evidence of teenagers “gone bad”, of an emerging generation…
Charity ‘appalled’ by efforts to host freedom campers instead of homeless
http://bit.ly/2Ra4gip The free services are just the kind that those caring for the homeless have spent a year asking for. Charitable agency The Male Room director Philip Chapman says there seems to be far more emphasis put “on freedom campers than what we do for our homeless”. “I just think that’s appalling,” he says. The…
Maximum jail term for third strike child sex offender who lurked in toy aisles
http://bit.ly/2Mlt195 The 10-year-old girl choosing a birthday present in the Warehouse toy aisle did not know the grey haired man behind her was a sex offender about to earn his third strike in five years. Innocently she told him it was her birthday and she was picking presents with her mum who was in another…

Peacekeepers in Central African Republic sexually assaulted at least three children
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12138013 The United Nations is facing new allegations that peacekeepers in Central African Republic sexually assaulted at least three children under 18 and raped three adult women earlier this year, the latest in a series of sexual misconduct claims that have marred U.N. peacekeeping efforts in recent years. The U.N. said Friday it has detained…
They don’t always garner the empathetic and supportive response they need
http://bit.ly/2PkJbAK Even worse, when sexually abused males do choose to talk about their abuse, they don’t always garner the empathetic and supportive response they need, because all of us—even therapists—are trapped in the man rules to some degree. Even highly trained clinicians have societally influenced expectations, sometimes thinking that sexually abused males should be able…