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Responding to youth crime : towards radical criminal justice partnerships

Paul Omaji
This 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. Contents include: 1. Criminal justice thinking about youth 2. Young 'actors' in criminal justice 'imaging of youth. 3. Traditional justice response to youth crime 4. Trends and costs of traditional criminal justice response to youth crime. 5. Towards partnership: changing perspective in criminal justice. 6. Criminal justice partnerships: selected experiences 7. The partnership benchmark for traditional criminal justice response 8. Criminal justice prevention of youth crime: future directions
Print Book, English, 2003
ix, 228 pages ; 24 cm
9781876067205, 1876067209
55149541
1. Criminal justice thinking about youth
2. Young 'actors' in criminal justice 'imaging' of youth
3. Traditional criminal justice response to youth crime
4. Trends and costs of traditional criminal justice response to youth crime
5. Towards partnership : changing perspectives in criminal justice
6. Criminal justice partnerships : selected experiences
7. The partnership benchmark for traditional criminal justice response
8. Criminal justice prevention of youth crime : future directions