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 2
... issues with ' feeling and passion ' while observing appropriate canons of social scientific research . Background : the context of the book At core , my research has led me to the view that crime is not our problem , much less the ...
... issues with ' feeling and passion ' while observing appropriate canons of social scientific research . Background : the context of the book At core , my research has led me to the view that crime is not our problem , much less the ...
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... issue for this book lies , is how to make sense of offending behaviour as a necessary prelude to designing appropriate responses and , more strategically , making young people realise redemptively the consequences of offending . This ...
... issue for this book lies , is how to make sense of offending behaviour as a necessary prelude to designing appropriate responses and , more strategically , making young people realise redemptively the consequences of offending . This ...
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... issue . Given my conviction about the crucial place that young people occupy in the ' destiny ' of any nation , and confronted by the relentless sensationalist media construction of youth crime in somewhat fatalistic and aversive terms ...
... issue . Given my conviction about the crucial place that young people occupy in the ' destiny ' of any nation , and confronted by the relentless sensationalist media construction of youth crime in somewhat fatalistic and aversive terms ...
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... issues . Commentators question what the system is supposed to be doing and whether it is doing it properly . As to whether the system is providing justice , preventing crime or , indeed , causing crime , the verdict weighs more towards ...
... issues . Commentators question what the system is supposed to be doing and whether it is doing it properly . As to whether the system is providing justice , preventing crime or , indeed , causing crime , the verdict weighs more towards ...
Page 28
... issue of family and re - establish the importance of proper parenting . This includes the obligation that all parents must set as their number one priority : love , discipline and encouraging moral growth for their children . The ...
... issue of family and re - establish the importance of proper parenting . This includes the obligation that all parents must set as their number one priority : love , discipline and encouraging moral growth for their children . The ...
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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