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...a burden on the economy’. According to Morris (2004), a survey held in England showed that 80% of the teenagers who were locked up were reconvicted within two years. Morris (2004) also states that the Youth Justice Board spends 72 per cent of its ?394m budget on custody, which is a huge amount and if the proportion of young offenders given custodial sentences increases so will the budget spent on the so there is a dire need of developing some alternative to custody. Young people in the criminal justice system are a significant financial burden not only on that system but also on social services, health and education. It is of immediate concern that our leadership needs to combat the...
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...? Youth Justice Task The youthful populace is an exceedingly resourceful component in the societal context. Therefore, people ought to make certain that the youth have the capacity to grow. Therefore, there are numerous agencies concerned with youth dealings. YMCA Australia is one of those agencies ensuring that there is no refutation of youth’s affairs. YMCA Australia concerns itself with the underprivileged populace. Among the populace are young people whom it ensures their nurturing. Below are services of the agency, youth crime, strengths and weaknesses of YMCA Australia, offer discussions about services. YMCA works...
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... in order to solve criminal activities in a society. Offenders are not brought before the court but are placed under youth experts and the measures are implemented until the objective of change is achieved (Smandych, 2001). The welfare model is almost similar to the actuarial model. This model relates the crimes to risk factors and tries to remove these risks. The point of focus is on risks. Judicial officers are the ones to handle the delinquents and the duration of intervention lasts for as long the risks exists (Winfried and Abadinsky, 2009). These two models are supported by the parties in power, that is, the Liberal Democratic Party and the Conservative Party. These models were put in place to replace the justice model... ? UK...
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...practices lack the effective quality assurance systems and procedures in place which can ensure that the practice is being done on more professional as well as ethical footings.
This essay will argue the role of quality assurance system to be designed to measure the effective practice in youth justice and will attempt to explore the issue from different perspectives so that a balanced view of the same can emerge.
Youth justice
It has been argued that the public opinion and media attention towards the young justice has not been the same as it has remained for the adult...
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... Task Force. Reaching Out. Chapter 4, section III: p.49.
Stephenson, Martin & Giller, Henri & Brown, Sally. Effective Practice in Youth Justice.
Willan Publishing, 2003.
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Strang, Heather & Braithwaite, John. Restorative Justice and Family Violence. Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. http://www.everychildmatters.gov.uk/uncrc.
Weitekamp, Elmar & Kerner, Hans-Jurgen. Restorative Justice: Theoretical Foundations.
Willan Publishing, 2002.... has deployed YOTs (Youth Offending Teams) to aid and support the parents of children who...
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...Introduction Juvenile delinquency is always a problem in most societies today. However, juvenile justice has improved markedly over the last decades when compared to the earlier centuries in which young offenders were imposed harsh sentences not commensurate with their crimes. It was often worse when these young criminals were sent to prison with adult and very hardened criminals, further victimizing them instead of offering some rehabilitation. Recent moves are more enlightened with young offenders given separate facilities and even offered a form of counselling that will restore them to society. The focus is no longer on punishment. A search for committed effective criminal justice...
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.... (2007). Criminal Justice in Action. Thomson Wadsworth.
Goodkind, S., Ruffolo, M., Bybee, D., & Sarri, R. (2009). Coping as a Mediator of the Effects of Stressors and Supports on Depression Among Girls in Juvenile Justice. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice , 7(2):100-118.
Hart, P. D. (2002, February). The Open Society Institute. Retrieved June 1, 2010, from Changing Public Attitudes toward the Criminal Justice System: http://www.soros.org/initiatives/usprograms/focus/justice/articles_publications/publications/hartpoll_20020201/Hart-Poll.pdf.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. (2010). Retrieved June 1, 2010, from Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook: http://ojjdp.ncjrs.gov/ojstatbb/cjrp/asp... ...
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...me a two-fold advantage: potential for professional progress, and both personal and professional satisfaction in my ability to deliver a sound basis of practice. The implication of the implementation of the YRO in tandem with the Scaled Approach for youth justice will hopefully result in more accurate in assessment, intervention and supervision. This will have a direct impact on my work as a youth justice practitioner and being part of a team for the reformation and rehabilitation of youth offenders, enabling us to be more effective and ultimately, personally and professionally rewarding.
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...Youth justice
Introduction
Several Australian social organizations with a primary focus other than youth justice were discussed in case studies examining their effect on criminality arising from pursuit of their primary goals. The object was for the student to select 3 of these and grade them as a tutor would. My selections and grades are as follows.
1) “I” (Gold Coast Drug Council Inc.) 80%
2) “G” (Zig Zag) 75%
3) “B” (The Smith Family) 70%
Grading Rationale
I was very impressed with “I” (Gold Coast) because it not only provided theoretical arguments for the success of its’ programs, but also statistical proof such...
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...)’ to ‘exchange (for capital)’ (Leschied, 2007; Miller & Lynam, 2001).
Weaknesses of Marx theory
Although the theory puts light on important aspects of political marginalization and inequality and its effect on proletariat workers particularly youth, it lacks explanation for crimes committed by white-collar communities. Data shows that despite strengthening capitalistic attitude in UK, crimes in UK are decreasing. The Home Office Offending Crime and Justice Survey (involving 5000 respondents of 10 to 25 years) shows that three out four young individual in UK had not committed any of the twenty core offences (listed in the survey) in 2013 (Civitas Crime 2014). The Marxist theory says that...
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