Community-based Service-Learning in Juvenile Justice Settings
Posted by on January 22, 2007
Introducing Community Service Learning
This innovative, new juvenile-justice approach applies principles of school-based service learning, balanced and restorative justice, and law-related education to update and improve traditional, court-ordered, mandatory community service.
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Charles Degelman Carolyn Pereira
Scott B. Peterson
In an effort to reduce recidivism and build civic awareness, juvenile-justice agencies have begun to rethink the way they approach court-ordered, mandatory community service. Called community service learning (CSL), this new, justice-oriented, community-service model borrows from school-based service learning. The results have been surprising. [more]
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