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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Page vii
... effective ) partnerships 179 Intensity of collaboration and the autonomy question 179 Empowering structures and protocols 180 Strategically involving young people 181 Operational imperatives 183 Conclusion 185 8 Criminal justice ...
... effective ) partnerships 179 Intensity of collaboration and the autonomy question 179 Empowering structures and protocols 180 Strategically involving young people 181 Operational imperatives 183 Conclusion 185 8 Criminal justice ...
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... effective criminal justice responses . Over the years , several politicians and the mainstream media have endeavoured jointly or severally to justify and maintain the illogical traditional approach to crime control which lavishes ...
... effective criminal justice responses . Over the years , several politicians and the mainstream media have endeavoured jointly or severally to justify and maintain the illogical traditional approach to crime control which lavishes ...
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... effectively address the interests of the offender and the com- munity . The court is able to effect , as much as practicable , the reformation of the offender and the protection of the community , and the families from future wrong ...
... effectively address the interests of the offender and the com- munity . The court is able to effect , as much as practicable , the reformation of the offender and the protection of the community , and the families from future wrong ...
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... effectively with the offending behaviour of these young people ( Alder and Wundersitz 1994 ) . Intriguingly , the perceived impotence of the system has run parallel to the burgeoning of the crime control budget . It nonetheless became ...
... effectively with the offending behaviour of these young people ( Alder and Wundersitz 1994 ) . Intriguingly , the perceived impotence of the system has run parallel to the burgeoning of the crime control budget . It nonetheless became ...
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... effective in stemming the perceived rising tide of youth violence and crime . Out of this situation emerged a ... effectively , the arrival of partnership was destined to claim the global stage . The UN had stated that ' volunteers ...
... effective in stemming the perceived rising tide of youth violence and crime . Out of this situation emerged a ... effectively , the arrival of partnership was destined to claim the global stage . The UN had stated that ' volunteers ...
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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