2,970 search results for “youth law” in the Public website
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Apollonia Bolscher
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
k.g.a.bolscher@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3925
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Evaluation of the Dutch Youth Act
This research evaluates the Youth Act. It will provide an overview of how the transition takes place, whether the transformation process develops in the right direction and whether the legal safeguards are functioning properly.
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Maaike Kempes
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
m.m.kempes@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Muslim Youth and the 9/11 Generation
On young Muslims seeking to understand their place and make their way in a transformed world.
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Broadening Youth Participation in STEM Learning
How can we broaden youth participation in STEM Learning
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Rights at the municipal level: access to (social) justice in voluntary Youth Care, The Netherlands
The research project addresses the question how complaints in the voluntary youth care system are dealt with on the municipal level and what role (municipal) Children’s Ombudspersons play in this context, through qualitative research methods.
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The participation of children in youth care
In this study the central question to be answered is whether children are able to participate in decisions and at which moments these decisions are taken in the youth care trajectory.
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Youth and safety
Policy studies and interventions in the field of Youth
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Youth and safety
Policy studies and interventions in the field of Youth
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Political Muslims: Understanding Youth Resistance in a Global Context
An interdisciplinary collection of the best international scholarship on Muslim youth.
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A European Youth Revolt. European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s
Together with Knud Andresen, Bart van der Steen recently published a volume titled A European Youth Revolt. European Perspectives on Youth Protest and Social Movements in the 1980s.
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Secure youth care is failing. ‘It’s like being in an extremely strict prison.’
Roughly arrested and subjected to extreme isolation. Using his experience, expert Jason Bhugwandass spoke to 50 young people who have spent time on Zikos wards (‘very intense, short-term observation and stabilisation wards’). He concluded that they’re ‘mostly locked up’ and leave ‘even more traumatised’…
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Social Anxiety and Specific Phobia in Youth
From basic science to real-world interventions
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Islam in North Africa: A Critical Return to Youth
In recent years, and especially since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, a growing body of research, media reporting, and scholarly literature has focused on the role of ‘Arab youth’ as the drivers of social and political movements across the Middle East and North Africa.
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Bruning and colleagues on cry for help concerning secure residential youth care
Practice and science show that secure residential youth care in the Netherlands should no longer be used as a catch-all solution. This is the conclusion of several professionals including Professor of Child Law Mariëlle Bruning in Dutch newspaper NRC.
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Knowledge centre Anxiety & Stress in Youth
Our mission is to recognise and treat stress and anxiety in children as early as possible, by connecting scientific research, clinical practice and education.
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Research
The Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies research group conducts innovative high-quality research aiming to gain knowledge about deviant developmental trajectories of vulnerable children, adolescents, and families, about how to prevent problematic development and how to intervene when necessary.
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Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies lab
Biological and behavioural measurements of parent-child interactions.
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Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies Leiden University
The program group Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies of the Institute of Education and Child Studies deals with the developmental processes of vulnerable children, young people and families.
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Social Anxiety and Specific Phobia in youth
Welcome to the Social Anxiety and Specific Phobia (SASP) Research Group!
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Contact
The program group Forensic Family and Youth Care Studies is located in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Leiden University near Central Station.
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Education
Within the bachelor's program of Education and Child Studies, we include the minor Kindermishandeling en Verwaarlozing: een levensloopperspectief and several other courses.
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The power of positive peers for socially anxious youth
Can positive peer feedback break the cycle of negative self-relevant cognitive processes and reduce self-reported anxiety in early adolescents?
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Severe behavioral and emotional problems, special education and youth care
Which educational and child welfare interventions offer optimal opportunities for positive development to children with severe behavioral and emotional disorders.
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Mariëlle Bruning: more action needed to improve youth care
Policy plans state that children should be placed in secure youth care less often and for shorter periods. But this is problematic in practice.
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The development of public speaking anxiety in youth
Does the public speaking anxiety that many youngsters experience originates from specific characteristics in their earlier development?
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ISA - Intervention for Social Anxiety in children and youth
Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common disorders in children and young people. Social anxiety is characterized by excessive fear and avoidance of social situations. The primary fear in children with social anxiety is that they will be negatively judged by others. To date, the most frequently…
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The development and prevention of social anxiety in youth
What are the developmental pathways to social anxiety (disorder), the causal processes and maintaining factors? How do these factors interact in the development of social anxiety disorder? How can this knowledge be used to design and implement effective preventive intervention programs for youth?
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Vocational identity of at-risk youth: tailoring to support career chances
How can mentors and social workers foster the vocational identity of at-risk youth and improve their prospects?
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Mariëlle Bruning: No full figures on waiting lists for youth care
The waiting lists in youth care are alarmingly long. This has been confirmed again by a study carried out by a Dutch foundation The Forgotten Child.
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Between expectations and opportunities: urban youth navigating duress in a globalized southern Nigeria
This project looks at the ways in which youth in southern Nigeria navigate their lives in a context of experiencing long-term socioeconomic uncertainty and political insecurity (duress).
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Mariëlle Bruning: Swift action needed for failing youth services system
On 1 January 2021, a major youth care centre in the Dutch province Zeeland will close its doors. It is responsible for implementing child protection measures. As a result, it is likely that the care for around 1100 children will come under threat. Vulnerable children will face changes to the authorities…
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
On the 26th of September, Cosmas Rai Amenorvi successfully defended a doctoral thesis. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Cosmas on this achievement!
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The Cinematic Santri : Youth Culture, Tradition and Technology in Muslim Indonesia
The Cinematic Santri explores the rise and course over the last ten years of cinematic practices among a younger generation of NU associates (Nahdlatul Ulama), the largest traditionalist Muslim group in Indonesia and elsewhere.
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The recognition process of youth with problematic anxiety in general practice
Do general practitioners recognize children with or at risk of problematic anxiety and is there a pattern that might help differentiate those with and without anxiety disorders in general practice?
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Child Law
The Department of Child Law is a knowledge centre dedicated to academic research and education for both students and professionals in the field of child law and children's rights.
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values, and ethnic backlash in Africa: investigating the persistence of youth political attitudes.
How does economic downturn affect pre-existing democratic values and intergroup attitudes? Does economic downturn lead people to lose support for democracy and does it raise perceptions of intergroup threat? Is the potential effect of economic downturn on these political attitudes conditional upon earlier…
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Fostering Positive Attitudes Towards Venezuelan Migrants Among the Youth in Ecuador
Does “putting yourself in the migrant’s shoes” elicit more positive attitudes toward migration? Can perspective-taking – the active consideration of others’ mental states and subjective experiences – help undermine negative stereotypes and prejudice against migrants? We explore these questions in Ecuador,…
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Young paedophile hunters in juvenile court: 'A criminal record means being 3-0 down'
Ten underage boys are due to appear before a juvenile court. They are accused of luring and attacking nine men whom they believed were paedophiles. Last October, one attack cost a 73-year-old former teacher from Arnhem his life.
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Mariëlle Bruning on waiting lists in Dutch youth care
How many children are waiting for help from youth services in the Netherlands at any given time? And exactly how long do they have to wait?
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Restatement of Labour Law
Hart Publishing in Oxford has published the first book in a series entitled ‘Restatement of Labour Law in Europe’. This particular book deals with the question of which employees are protected by labour law (‘The concept of employee’).
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Youth, Media and Protest: Histories of Engaging in Central African politics and social life
How do old and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) relate to new social and political movements in Central Africa? What does this tell us about Africa and the Information Age?
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Judi Mesman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.mesman@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3482
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Institute of Public Law
The institute that focuses on Public Law is as broad as the field itself. The Institute of Public Law has six departments, each with its own research agenda.
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Legal Risks in EU Law
This book presents concrete solutions for managing the legal risks distorting the development of various areas of EU law. It pursues an innovative and effective approach to identify legal risks, their causes at the EU level and their impacts on the functioning of the Union and its Member States. It…
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Was there forced labour at Dutch youth institution De Goede Herder?
The civil lawsuit against the Congregation of 'Onze Lieve Vrouw van Liefde van de Goede Herder' starts this week. A total of 19 women, aged from 62 to 91, together with the women’s rights foundation Clara Wichmann wants recognition through the courts that there was a situation of forced labour at youth…
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Mies Grijns
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
m.grijns@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Mariëlle Bruning in Trouw about extra money for youth protection
The Dutch cabinet will allocate a total of 40 million euros extra for institutions providing youth protection and youth rehabilitation over the next four years. Local councils must make the same amount available. Will that be enough to solve the problems?
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Department of Child Law welcomes back alumna Lucy Opoka
In the summer of 2021, Lucy Opoka was awarded one of the coveted Meijers PhD positions. In October, she arrived back in Leiden, where she obtained her LLM degree Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights in 2019. Professor Liefaard interviewed Lucy upon arrival.
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First comparative textbook on East African Community law and EU law by Leiden University
Published by Brill Nijhoff and written by leading experts including national judges, academics and practitioners East African Community Law is the first comparative as well as open access textbook on EAC law. The book provides a key resource for the research, teaching, and practice of EAC law. It also…