Library Guides: Community & Justice Services: Working with Youth

Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLii)
Offers free public access to over 2.4 million documents across more than 300 case law and legislative databases.
Hamilton Spectator
Newspaper for Hamilton, Ontario containing local and international news. Coverage available from September 2002 to present.

Counseling and Therapy in Video
This series contains more than 2,400 hours of footage from actual therapy sessions, training videos, and reenactments conducted by renowned counseling professionals.
Warning Signs: A look at Teenage Violence
This fast-paced, edgy video brings together experts, victims, and offenders to help viewers identify and detect the warning signs surrounding a violent situation. Experts who work with troubled teens share critical insight into the minds and behaviors of potentially violent individuals. Viewers will be given not only specific warning signs but also an effective plan of action against a possibly volatile situation.
Kids in Jail
With unprecedented access, this documentary paints an intimate, complex portrait of kids in jail. The film raises difficult yet vital questions about at-risk youth and young offenders, and asks: Should we be doing more to help them?
TED Talks: Ismael Nazario: What I Learned as a kid in Jail
As a teenager, Ismael Nazario was sent to New York’s Rikers Island jail, where he spent 300 days in solitary confinement -- all before he was ever convicted of a crime. Now as a prison reform advocate he works to change the culture of American jails and prisons, where young people are frequently subjected to violence beyond imagination.