Youth Justice in Denmark

Kyvsgaard, Britta

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“…In Denmark, offense‐reports nearly tripled in the 1970s due to the increase of youth offenders, although youth crime has stabilized in recent years (Kyvsgaard, ). Still, Denmark has historically experienced elevated levels of youth incarceration and has sanctioned youth to restrictive institutional placements despite records of high recidivism rates (Lappi‐Seppälä, ; Storgaard, ).…”

Section: Family Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Juvenile conviction rates have increased from 13% in 1995 to 21% in 2010, and juveniles are twice as likely to be involved in a crime compared to adults (Smit & Bijleveld, ). While data on child offenders is limited in Denmark (Kyvsgaard, ), reports indicate that specific types of offenses (e.g., violence, shoplifting) have increased for youth. Additionally, disruptive behavior problems and substance use have been linked to school absenteeism, which has been associated with school dropout and lower academic performance in Danish youth.…”

Section: Family Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Attention toward youth with disruptive behavior problems and encounters with the juvenile justice system has increased in Scandinavian countries, with particular interest in evaluating viable intervention models (Breuk et al, ; Kyvsgaard, ). Currently in Denmark, families with children in need of special support are provided access to preventative and/or corrective services (e.g., municipal mental health services, residential institutions).…”

Section: Family Therapymentioning

confidence: 99%

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An International Examination of the Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in a Danish Community Sample

Vardanian

Scavenius

Granski

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J Marital Family Therapy

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Youth behavior problems have increased in prevalence in Scandinavian countries. Functional Family Therapy (FFT) has been shown to be an effective intervention across diverse populations and international contexts. The current study examines the effectiveness of FFT within a Danish-community sample in a pre-post comparison design and includes 687 families. Observed outcomes included both parent-and/or youth-reported domains of youth behavior, family dysfunction, school attendance and performance, and substance use. Significant improvements were found in youth behavior, family functioning, and school-related outcomes (e.g., like of school and truancy) despite experiencing a 60% attrition rate in our sample postintervention. This study provides evidence for the effectiveness of FFT on a wide scale in a Scandinavian context, adding to previous research that supports the transportability of this intervention.

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An International Examination of the Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in a Danish Community Sample

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“…The question of whether restorative justice is something that is found in Denmark first began to be addressed around the year 2000, and it only received little attention at this time. As a matter of fact, I have merely managed to identify a few texts from the first half of the 2000s that use the term "restorative justice"-or its Danish translations-in connection with practices in Denmark, and all these texts use the term in relation to the Danish trials with victim offender mediation (Snare 1999; Lemonne and Snare 2000;Aertsen and Willemsens 2001;Miers 2001;Lemonne 2003;Kyvsgaard 2004). 3 These early texts suggest that the victim offender mediation, organised by the Danish police, is an example of-or at least something closely related to-restorative justice.…”

Section: Danish Contextmentioning

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“…Nevertheless, in 2004, Britta Kyvsgaard wrote: "It can be argued that the principles underlying restorative justice have long been part of the Danish penal system. The Danish Criminal Code of 1930 in section 84 mentions among mitigating circumstances freely and voluntarily averting the damage caused by the crime, fully restoring the damage of the crime, and otherwise freely and voluntarily making efforts to prevent the completion of the crime or to restore the damage caused by it" (Kyvsgaard 2004). This attempt to "project" restorative justice into the past has been a common, and sometimes criticised (Daly 2002), exercise in the restorative justice literature.…”

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“Restorative Justice”: History of the Term’s International and Danish Use

Gade

2018

Nordic Mediation Research

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In this article, I explore the historical origin and development of the use of the term "restorative justice" in published sources. The main argument is that the growing popularity of the term and its expanding use makes increasingly blurred what restorative justice is. I begin by investigating the term's international usage, tracing it back to written sources from the nineteenth century. Then, I cite personal communication with Howard Zehr to describe how his use of the term was inspired by Albert Eglash. Zehr initially popularised the term and, in the 1990s, use of the term expanded. In the 2000s, the term began to appear in United Nations and European Union documents, illustrating that restorative justice had become an internationally recognised approach to justice. After describing this international development, I analyse the Danish context, where the term "restorative justice" began to appear in writings around the year 2000. Around the same time, the existing Danish victim offender mediation programme became connected to restorative justice. Later, Danish practices outside the area of criminal justice became associated with the term. In conclusion, I argue that a potential problem of the expanded use of the term "restorative justice"-both in Denmark and internationally-is that usage may become so broad that the concept loses its meaning.

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D enmark, Corrections in

Møller

2017

The Encyclopedia of Corrections

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The Scandinavian countries have low imprisonment rates and very good prison conditions. When compared to other countries and regions they constitute a penal policy cluster. Historically, the welfare state ideal of egalitarianism has helped keep criminal justice policies relatively lenient and the vast majority of criminal convictions that result in a prison sentence are served in open institutions, essentially prisons without walls. All prisons in Denmark are run by the state and prisoners work during the day and are encouraged to participate in education. Recent trends in corrections show a bifurcation. A series of new sanction alternatives, such as electronic monitoring and mediation, have been introduced to help keep costs down and maintain the ambition of reintegrating inmates into society. Concurrently, sentence severity is increasing for crimes related to drugs and violence.

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Youth Justice in Denmark

Cited by 21 publications

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An International Examination of the Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in a Danish Community Sample

An International Examination of the Effectiveness of Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in a Danish Community Sample

“Restorative Justice”: History of the Term’s International and Danish Use

D enmark, Corrections in

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