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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... problem ' Reporting on 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 ...
... problem ' Reporting on 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 ...
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... problem - solving model Courts : towards a therapeutic model Corrections : towards constructive custody Searching for the grail : paradigm shift towards ' partnership ' Conceptual debates and perceptions about the partnership approach 6 ...
... problem - solving model Courts : towards a therapeutic model Corrections : towards constructive custody Searching for the grail : paradigm shift towards ' partnership ' Conceptual debates and perceptions about the partnership approach 6 ...
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... problem , much 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 ...
... problem , much 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 ...
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... problems in juvenile justice adminis- tration , ' beating up ' images of young offenders and of young people generally , and reinforcing myths about what does or doesn't work in relation to youth offending . Thus , the dominant criminal ...
... problems in juvenile justice adminis- tration , ' beating up ' images of young offenders and of young people generally , and reinforcing myths about what does or doesn't work in relation to youth offending . Thus , the dominant criminal ...
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... problems than to incarcerate an unprecedented percentage of its popu- lation , particularly the black , particularly the young ' . As if this is not bad enough , the nation ' rejoices in what it sees as the triumphs of zero - tolerance ...
... problems than to incarcerate an unprecedented percentage of its popu- lation , particularly the black , particularly the young ' . As if this is not bad enough , the nation ' rejoices in what it sees as the triumphs of zero - tolerance ...
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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