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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... practices of the criminal justice agencies across national or regional jurisdictions . Rather , it draws on some contextual commonalities among the countries in order to demonstrate , generically , the failure of the traditional ...
... practices of the criminal justice agencies across national or regional jurisdictions . Rather , it draws on some contextual commonalities among the countries in order to demonstrate , generically , the failure of the traditional ...
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... practices have a past . Both are poignantly addressed in Rawlings ' ( 1999 ) Crime and Power : A History of Criminal Justice 1688-1998 , a tour de force and an insightful analysis of the English criminal justice and crime control ...
... practices have a past . Both are poignantly addressed in Rawlings ' ( 1999 ) Crime and Power : A History of Criminal Justice 1688-1998 , a tour de force and an insightful analysis of the English criminal justice and crime control ...
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... practice ' ) partnerships . Good faith about how much independence agencies are willing to ' sacrifice ' , establishment of empowering structures and protocols , and constructive thinking towards young people emerge as the core ...
... practice ' ) partnerships . Good faith about how much independence agencies are willing to ' sacrifice ' , establishment of empowering structures and protocols , and constructive thinking towards young people emerge as the core ...
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... practices in which young people are treated as second - class citizens . Earlier in the 1990s , the European Forum for Urban Security had produced a report , Security and Democracy , Analytical College on Urban Safety ( 1993 ) , with a ...
... practices in which young people are treated as second - class citizens . Earlier in the 1990s , the European Forum for Urban Security had produced a report , Security and Democracy , Analytical College on Urban Safety ( 1993 ) , with a ...
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... practices has been aptly captured by Cunneen ( 2001 , p 152 ) when he states that ' the view of Indigenous people as not law - abiding , as hostile and unco- operative , as drunken , is a view which redefines them as a criminal class ...
... practices has been aptly captured by Cunneen ( 2001 , p 152 ) when he states that ' the view of Indigenous people as not law - abiding , as hostile and unco- operative , as drunken , is a view which redefines them as a criminal class ...
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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