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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... better effected than by detection and punishment of an offender after he has succeeded in committing the crime , ( quoted in Edwards 1999 ) The judiciary demonstrates its connection to youth crime prevention ( 6 RESPONDING TO YOUTH CRIME.
... better effected than by detection and punishment of an offender after he has succeeded in committing the crime , ( quoted in Edwards 1999 ) The judiciary demonstrates its connection to youth crime prevention ( 6 RESPONDING TO YOUTH CRIME.
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... committing crime ( secondary prevention ) . I have considered it more persuasive and fruitful to adopt , as Sherman , Gottfredson , Mackenzie , Eck , Reuter , and Bushway ( 1998 ) did , a broader definition of crime prevention which ...
... committing crime ( secondary prevention ) . I have considered it more persuasive and fruitful to adopt , as Sherman , Gottfredson , Mackenzie , Eck , Reuter , and Bushway ( 1998 ) did , a broader definition of crime prevention which ...
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... commit crimes in community ( General ) Small number of high rate offenders can be identified and imprisoned during ... committing crimes Specific : Punitive punishment will keep punished individuals from committing more crimes Change ...
... commit crimes in community ( General ) Small number of high rate offenders can be identified and imprisoned during ... committing crimes Specific : Punitive punishment will keep punished individuals from committing more crimes Change ...
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... committing crimes is equally matched by the increasing public despair with the juvenile justice system's apparent inability to deal effectively with the offending behaviour of these young people ( Alder and Wundersitz 1994 ) ...
... committing crimes is equally matched by the increasing public despair with the juvenile justice system's apparent inability to deal effectively with the offending behaviour of these young people ( Alder and Wundersitz 1994 ) ...
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... commit crime . The study focused on those partnerships in which justice agencies have played a leading role as initiators or as major operators and which aimed to tackle youth crime in ways other than the ineffective conventional ...
... commit crime . The study focused on those partnerships in which justice agencies have played a leading role as initiators or as major operators and which aimed to tackle youth crime in ways other than the ineffective conventional ...
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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