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The Relationship Between Street Children and the Justice System in EgyptUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada, Nawal.Ammar{at}uoit.ca This article examines the relationship between street children and the justice system in Egypt. After introducing the context of street children in the Egyptian case, it explores whether the justice system exacerbates the problem of street children and whether its potential to play a positive part in alleviating the problem should be revisited. The article then explores the basis for the negative perspective on the role of the justice system and the steps required to improve its role in solving the problem of the increasing number of street children. It concludes with a three-pronged approach for the Egyptian justice system to adopt to effectively address the problem of street children. The article is based on an existing knowledge base that is scattered in small-sample empirical studies, large-scale surveys, United Nations reports, newspapers, and a few academic articles written in both English and Arabic.
Key Words: street children • Egypt • justice system
This version was published on October
1, 2009 International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 53, No. 5,
556-573 (2009) |
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