Responding to Youth Crime: Towards Radical Criminal Justice PartnershipsThis book presents a critique of the traditional responses to youth crime by criminal justice agencies in Australia, UK, New Zealand, USA, Canada, and a vision of how these agencies could respond more effectively. The critique examines the ways in which traditional criminal justice approaches trap young people into, rather than turn them away from, a life of crime. The vision is for criminal justice agencies - police, courts, and corrections - to become more pro-active partners in society's efforts to guide young people towards becoming happy and productive citizens; for these agencies to focus less on the exercise of retributive powers and to embrace restorative approaches; and for agencies to develop a crime prevention role through partnership with community organisations. Author Paul Omaji argues against concentrating resources on the symptom when the underlying causes are within our intellectual grasp and amenable to effective criminal justice responses. Omaji demonstrates the capacity of criminal justice agencies to become constructive partners with community organisations in preventing youth crime and constructs ground rules for high impact partnerships. |
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... Australia Cataloguing - in - Publication data : Omaji , Paul . Responding to youth crime : towards radical criminal justice partnerships . Bibliography Includes index . ISBN 1 876067 209 1. Juvenile delinquency . 2. Criminal justice ...
... Australia Cataloguing - in - Publication data : Omaji , Paul . Responding to youth crime : towards radical criminal justice partnerships . Bibliography Includes index . ISBN 1 876067 209 1. Juvenile delinquency . 2. Criminal justice ...
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... Australian Juvenile Justice Teams ( Australia ) Mt Roskill Police Community Approach Project ( NZ ) 143 144 146 Midtown Community Court , New York 148 Local authority - centred partnership model 151 Safer Slough Enterprise Partnership ...
... Australian Juvenile Justice Teams ( Australia ) Mt Roskill Police Community Approach Project ( NZ ) 143 144 146 Midtown Community Court , New York 148 Local authority - centred partnership model 151 Safer Slough Enterprise Partnership ...
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... Australia's foremost writers , Phillip Adams , captures this quite vividly when he says : Despite the immense difficulties of [ post ] modern times and the immense provocations of [ post ] modern society , children are doing their best ...
... Australia's foremost writers , Phillip Adams , captures this quite vividly when he says : Despite the immense difficulties of [ post ] modern times and the immense provocations of [ post ] modern society , children are doing their best ...
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... Australia , Canada and New Zealand of the 1980s and 1990s were in good company with the prison- addicted and youth - demonising UK and us . That most of these societies do talk about the vital role of young people in the destiny of ...
... Australia , Canada and New Zealand of the 1980s and 1990s were in good company with the prison- addicted and youth - demonising UK and us . That most of these societies do talk about the vital role of young people in the destiny of ...
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... Australia , that ' no doubt the public , the press , and the politicians interacting as always - know that juvenile crime is always rising and out of control ' . This is historically untrue : the history of the ideas and cycle of ...
... Australia , that ' no doubt the public , the press , and the politicians interacting as always - know that juvenile crime is always rising and out of control ' . This is historically untrue : the history of the ideas and cycle of ...
Contents
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Young actors in criminal justice imaging of youth | 40 |
Traditional criminal justice response to youth crime | 57 |
Trends and costs of traditional criminal justice response | 90 |
changing perspectives in criminal | 113 |
selected experiences | 137 |
The partnership benchmark for traditional criminal | 165 |
Conclusion | 199 |
Index | 221 |
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