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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... minority racial and ethnic youth Conclusion 2 Young ' actors ' in criminal justice ' imaging ' of youth Youth and image construction 30 32 32 33 34 37 38 40 41 Imaging through youth cultural expressions 42 Fighting against being ...
... minority racial and ethnic youth Conclusion 2 Young ' actors ' in criminal justice ' imaging ' of youth Youth and image construction 30 32 32 33 34 37 38 40 41 Imaging through youth cultural expressions 42 Fighting against being ...
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... minority racial and ethnic youth . Chapter 2 challenges the conventional wisdom that young people passively experience stereotyping and control by the criminal justice agencies . Lessons from dialectics were drawn upon to demonstrate ...
... minority racial and ethnic youth . Chapter 2 challenges the conventional wisdom that young people passively experience stereotyping and control by the criminal justice agencies . Lessons from dialectics were drawn upon to demonstrate ...
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... minority youth in particular , the interface of images and roles comes across as ' police racism ' : whereby police authorities stigmatise , harass , criminalise or otherwise . discriminate against certain social groups ' on the basis ...
... minority youth in particular , the interface of images and roles comes across as ' police racism ' : whereby police authorities stigmatise , harass , criminalise or otherwise . discriminate against certain social groups ' on the basis ...
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... minority youth ' , another aspect of police imaging becomes manifest . Research shows that , with a police subculture that continues to be ' notoriously ethnocentric with strong insider - outsider boundaries ' ( Easteal 1997 , p 159 ) ...
... minority youth ' , another aspect of police imaging becomes manifest . Research shows that , with a police subculture that continues to be ' notoriously ethnocentric with strong insider - outsider boundaries ' ( Easteal 1997 , p 159 ) ...
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... minorities are inferior and not to be trusted . They regard all Aboriginal youth as ' constant offenders ' and that ' most ... minority groups , and black people in particular , as ' problematic ' . They tend to perceive them as being ...
... minorities are inferior and not to be trusted . They regard all Aboriginal youth as ' constant offenders ' and that ' most ... minority groups , and black people in particular , as ' problematic ' . They tend to perceive them as being ...
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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