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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... instances ; nor do I argue that in all cases all young people experience the systems negatively.1 The task of the critique is to illuminate the socially grounded ' mischief ' in the traditional criminal justice approaches which traps ...
... instances ; nor do I argue that in all cases all young people experience the systems negatively.1 The task of the critique is to illuminate the socially grounded ' mischief ' in the traditional criminal justice approaches which traps ...
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... instance , at the 1999 hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary ( US House Of Representatives ) , the Chairman , Mr Gekas , introduced the subject - Reforming Juvenile Justice in America - by ...
... instance , at the 1999 hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime of the Committee on the Judiciary ( US House Of Representatives ) , the Chairman , Mr Gekas , introduced the subject - Reforming Juvenile Justice in America - by ...
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... instance , having reviewed Tasmania's Youth Justice Act 1997 and Children , Young People and Their Families Act 1997 , Szramka ( 2001 ) remarks : Once an offender is prosecuted for an offence before the court , the court is able to more ...
... instance , having reviewed Tasmania's Youth Justice Act 1997 and Children , Young People and Their Families Act 1997 , Szramka ( 2001 ) remarks : Once an offender is prosecuted for an offence before the court , the court is able to more ...
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... instance , police regard Australia's Aboriginal youth suspiciously and believe instinctively that young Aborigines are ' up to no good ' . They carry the social prejudices of the wider community from which they are drawn that 23 ...
... instance , police regard Australia's Aboriginal youth suspiciously and believe instinctively that young Aborigines are ' up to no good ' . They carry the social prejudices of the wider community from which they are drawn that 23 ...
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... instance , some English judges had young people firmly in their view when they wanted the 1908 Anglo - Welsh Prevention of Crime Act extended beyond the professional criminals for which the law was enacted to include those people ...
... instance , some English judges had young people firmly in their view when they wanted the 1908 Anglo - Welsh Prevention of Crime Act extended beyond the professional criminals for which the law was enacted to include those people ...
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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