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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... factors How detention staff think about youth Making sense of criminal justice perceptions of youth Ideological factors Mass media repackaging of ' youth as problem ' Reporting on minority racial and ethnic youth Conclusion 2 Young ...
... factors How detention staff think about youth Making sense of criminal justice perceptions of youth Ideological factors Mass media repackaging of ' youth as problem ' Reporting on minority racial and ethnic youth Conclusion 2 Young ...
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... factor for success in this non- conventional response to crime by criminal justice agencies . As observed in the South Australian Crime Prevention Strategy , ' while it cannot be assumed that techniques successful in one jurisdiction ...
... factor for success in this non- conventional response to crime by criminal justice agencies . As observed in the South Australian Crime Prevention Strategy , ' while it cannot be assumed that techniques successful in one jurisdiction ...
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... and ( c ) the factors that are conducive not only to the development of high impact partnerships but also to criminal justice agencies penetrating deeper into the primary level of crime prevention 12 RESPONDING TO YOUTH CRIME.
... and ( c ) the factors that are conducive not only to the development of high impact partnerships but also to criminal justice agencies penetrating deeper into the primary level of crime prevention 12 RESPONDING TO YOUTH CRIME.
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... factors of the case so that ' essential features of socially recognised familiar ' scenes may be detected and abstracted . In relation to youth crime , therefore , the abstracted familiar features become the basis for the criminal ...
... factors of the case so that ' essential features of socially recognised familiar ' scenes may be detected and abstracted . In relation to youth crime , therefore , the abstracted familiar features become the basis for the criminal ...
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... factors which have escalated the level of violence in some youth crime , especially in the USA , there is hardly any justification for the media - driven moral panic about youth offending and for the political infatuation with draconian ...
... factors which have escalated the level of violence in some youth crime , especially in the USA , there is hardly any justification for the media - driven moral panic about youth offending and for the political infatuation with draconian ...
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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