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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... society , the presentation of the knowledge and understanding has tried to avoid the intellectual's error that Antonio Gramsci warns about . Thus , I have sought not only to know and understand my subjects , but also to present relevant ...
... society , the presentation of the knowledge and understanding has tried to avoid the intellectual's error that Antonio Gramsci warns about . Thus , I have sought not only to know and understand my subjects , but also to present relevant ...
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... society , children are doing their best to cope . But that does not stop us demonising them . If it's a poor workman that blames his tool , it's an appalling society that hates its children.4 Of particular significance in this book is ...
... society , children are doing their best to cope . But that does not stop us demonising them . If it's a poor workman that blames his tool , it's an appalling society that hates its children.4 Of particular significance in this book is ...
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... societies do talk about the vital role of young people in the destiny of their nations cannot be gainsaid . Nor is it unusual for these same societies to simultaneously express paranoia about their youth . For instance , at the 1999 ...
... societies do talk about the vital role of young people in the destiny of their nations cannot be gainsaid . Nor is it unusual for these same societies to simultaneously express paranoia about their youth . For instance , at the 1999 ...
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... society that has produced them ' ( Kucera 1993 , p 237 ) , society is entitled to protection , and every child must at least realise the consequence of his or her actions . Where most societies and their criminal justice agencies have ...
... society that has produced them ' ( Kucera 1993 , p 237 ) , society is entitled to protection , and every child must at least realise the consequence of his or her actions . Where most societies and their criminal justice agencies have ...
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... society , these agencies occupy an unparalleled power position in terms of ' knowledge ' about crime and the mantle of authority or coercion that they possess . In the words of Shepherd ( 1999 ) , ' those who work every day in living ...
... society , these agencies occupy an unparalleled power position in terms of ' knowledge ' about crime and the mantle of authority or coercion that they possess . In the words of Shepherd ( 1999 ) , ' those who work every day in living ...
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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