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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... partnership projects to the traditional model 165 Motivations 166 Fundamental assumptions 168 Types of preventative intervention 169 Structural design and administration Strategies of intervention Shortfalls in the vi CONTENTS.
... partnership projects to the traditional model 165 Motivations 166 Fundamental assumptions 168 Types of preventative intervention 169 Structural design and administration Strategies of intervention Shortfalls in the vi CONTENTS.
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Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships Paul Omaji. Structural design and administration Strategies of intervention Shortfalls in the existing partnership approach Nature of community and youth involvement 170 174 175 175 No clear ...
Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships Paul Omaji. Structural design and administration Strategies of intervention Shortfalls in the existing partnership approach Nature of community and youth involvement 170 174 175 175 No clear ...
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... 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 - risk people from ...
... 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 - risk people from ...
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... strategies for interventions that fit more into the tertiary crime prevention ( see Table 0.1 ) . Table 0.1 Different strategies for preventing crime by the courts and corrections showing the anticipated mechanisms for impact CRIME ...
... strategies for interventions that fit more into the tertiary crime prevention ( see Table 0.1 ) . Table 0.1 Different strategies for preventing crime by the courts and corrections showing the anticipated mechanisms for impact CRIME ...
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... strategic partnerships are increasingly becoming the way we need to do business and crime prevention needs to be on the partnering bus or be left flat footed ' ( emphasis , added ) . Evidence suggests that justice agencies in the ...
... strategic partnerships are increasingly becoming the way we need to do business and crime prevention needs to be on the partnering bus or be left flat footed ' ( emphasis , added ) . Evidence suggests that justice agencies in the ...
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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