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Moving Beyond “Just Fun and Games”: The Process and Outcomes of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy Programming for Institutionalized Girls

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Over the past two decades, criminological scholars have increasingly sought to determine “what works” to control crime and delinquency and whether these approaches should vary by gender. In fact, the 1992 reauthorization of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act called for research designed to determine the needs of delinquent girls in particular, and to develop strategies to address these needs.

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  1. University of Toronto, Canada

    Janelle Joseph

  2. University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada

    Wesley Crichlow

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Foley, A.J. (2015). Moving Beyond “Just Fun and Games”: The Process and Outcomes of Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy Programming for Institutionalized Girls. In: Joseph, J., Crichlow, W. (eds) Alternative Offender Rehabilitation and Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137476821_6

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