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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Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships Paul Omaji. Contents 1 Youth as ... Criminal justice thinking about youth viii 1293 A 17 18 22 25 Sociological ... systems breach the standards Conclusion 81 82 83 84 88 Trends and costs of ...
Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships Paul Omaji. Contents 1 Youth as ... Criminal justice thinking about youth viii 1293 A 17 18 22 25 Sociological ... systems breach the standards Conclusion 81 82 83 84 88 Trends and costs of ...
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... criminal justice agencies to the incidence and prevention of youth crime in ... criminal pathways , and the justice ( so - called corrective ) systems that ... system which is youth centred , youth friendly and which protects the rights ...
... criminal justice agencies to the incidence and prevention of youth crime in ... criminal pathways , and the justice ( so - called corrective ) systems that ... system which is youth centred , youth friendly and which protects the rights ...
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... system , locating the sources of abiding life and energy in this system ... criminal justice agencies across national or regional jurisdictions . Rather ... criminal / juvenile justice systems , negative perceptions or stereotyping ...
... system , locating the sources of abiding life and energy in this system ... criminal justice agencies across national or regional jurisdictions . Rather ... criminal / juvenile justice systems , negative perceptions or stereotyping ...
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Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships Paul Omaji. product of public policies , the dyadic relationship ... system has lost its potential edge in effective crime prevention because it participates in this demonisation and , in the ...
Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships Paul Omaji. product of public policies , the dyadic relationship ... system has lost its potential edge in effective crime prevention because it participates in this demonisation and , in the ...
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Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships Paul Omaji. Scholarly works ... system have all badly handled this issue for a long time , choosing largely ... justice has ] for making a much better task of managing it than has previously ...
Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships Paul Omaji. Scholarly works ... system have all badly handled this issue for a long time , choosing largely ... justice has ] for making a much better task of managing it than has previously ...
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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