The future of youth justice
What is the future for youth justice in England and Wales? In a current climate of divergence, normlessness and local variations, we explore reform recommendations and the impact of economic austerity on local Youth Offending Teams: a retraction of support/services, yet increasing oversight by non-specialist managers. Four emerging youth justice delivery structures are identified, followed by an assessment of what does not work in practice – punishment, system contact, treatment and offender-focused interventions. We conclude that ‘what might work’ to progress youth justice is expert analysis, specialist youth workers and Children First principles in a coherent, flexible national policy context.
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- Social Sciences
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- Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies
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Youth JusticeCitation
CASE, S. and HAINES, K., 2018. The future of youth justice. Youth Justice, 18(2), pp. 131-148.Publisher
© The Authors. Published by SAGE PublicationsVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Acceptance date
2018-05-30Publication date
2018-08-16Notes
This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Youth Justice and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225418791416ISSN
1473-2254Publisher version
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