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 1
... less of their reactive and retributive powers and more of the restorative capacities within their statutory roles in their dealings with young people . The outcome must be a reconfigured youth justice system which is youth centred ...
... less of their reactive and retributive powers and more of the restorative capacities within their statutory roles in their dealings with young people . The outcome must be a reconfigured youth justice system which is youth centred ...
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... less the problem we had to have . Crime is fundamentally sympto- matic of a complex set of social structures and processes within which law breaking or criminal identities are constructed , imposed , adopted and / or earned . Beside the ...
... less the problem we had to have . Crime is fundamentally sympto- matic of a complex set of social structures and processes within which law breaking or criminal identities are constructed , imposed , adopted and / or earned . Beside the ...
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... less preventative than strategies which , as Graham ( 1990 , pp 9-12 ) puts it , attempt ( 1 ) to influence genetically the ' root causes ' of crime ( primary prevention ) or ( 2 ) to remove criminogenic situations and thus stop at ...
... less preventative than strategies which , as Graham ( 1990 , pp 9-12 ) puts it , attempt ( 1 ) to influence genetically the ' root causes ' of crime ( primary prevention ) or ( 2 ) to remove criminogenic situations and thus stop at ...
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... less than this will intensify the already dim view of the criminal justice agencies on the radar screen of youth crime prevention , well into the 21st century . Notes 23 1 Duncan ( 1996 ) argues that for some prisoners / detainees ...
... less than this will intensify the already dim view of the criminal justice agencies on the radar screen of youth crime prevention , well into the 21st century . Notes 23 1 Duncan ( 1996 ) argues that for some prisoners / detainees ...
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... less worn away by barren years of accommodative strategies to inequalities in the distribution of income and life chances ... their physical prowess and energy , attributes often considered prerequisites for conventional crime , will ...
... less worn away by barren years of accommodative strategies to inequalities in the distribution of income and life chances ... their physical prowess and energy , attributes often considered prerequisites for conventional crime , will ...
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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