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Responding to Youth Crime
Paul Omaji
其他書名
Towards Radical Criminal Justice Partnerships
出版Hawkins Press, 2003
主題Law / Criminal Law / Juvenile OffendersLaw / JurisprudenceSocial Science / Criminology
ISBN18760672099781876067205
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Fdkpj3jClCIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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. 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.