Youth Justice
- Publisher:
- Sage Publications, Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2021-09-06
- ISBN:
- 1473-2254
Issue Number
- No. 23-1, April 2023
- No. 22-3, December 2022
- No. 22-2, August 2022
- No. 22-1, April 2022
- No. 21-3, December 2021
- No. 21-2, August 2021
- No. 21-1, April 2021
- No. 20-3, December 2020
- No. 20-1-2, April 2020
- No. 19-3, December 2019
- No. 19-2, August 2019
- No. 19-1, April 2019
- No. 18-3, December 2018
- No. 18-2, August 2018
- No. 18-1, April 2018
- No. 17-3, December 2017
- No. 17-2, August 2017
- No. 17-1, April 2017
- No. 16-3, December 2016
- No. 16-2, August 2016
Latest documents
- From Referral to Treatment: Implementation Processes in Juvenile Drug Treatment Court Programs
Juvenile Drug Treatment Courts (JDTCs) provide a critical opportunity to identify and treat youth with substance use disorders (SUD). Structuring JTDCs to minimize process complexity and time to treatment is important. Results across eight JDTCs indicate the number of steps between referral and enrollment varied from 2 to 7, and the potential wait time varied from 1 to 58 days. The number of steps between referral and SUD treatment varied from 3 to 8, and the potential wait time varied from 2 to 118 days. Information regarding JTDC process can inform the field about JTDC practice, including barriers to treatment as well as areas for improvement.
- Temptations, Techniques and Typologies: Insights from a Western Australian Sample of Young People Who Burgle
A significant amount of property crime is committed by young people. In this novel qualitative study, 50 young people were interviewed to obtain an insight into their motivations to burgle. Decisions were based on peer pressure, opportunity and perceived need. Bennett and Wright’s typologies of adult burglars were applied to young burglars. Young burglars were more prone than adults in Bennett and Wright’s study to commit opportunistic burglaries, but were deterred by similar target characteristics. The social and psychological factors are strong motivators for youth burglary and should guide the development of intervention and deterrence strategies.
- Can Professional Interventions Contribute to an Escalation in Cases of Youth Violence? Considering the Impact of the Shift from Informal to Formal Youth Support on an Inner City Housing Estate
Youth violence is on the increase across many UK cities and although national trends, such as more networked entrepreneurial drug dealing, are contributing to the spread of such incidents, localised community environments play a significant role in the development of violent youth cultures. Based on a 4-year ethnographic study, this article explores how the shift from a resident led, relationship-based interaction, to a more professionalised evidenced-based intervention model, increased the risk of young people getting involved in youth violence. Efforts to address youth violence should consider including more relational informal support networks, alongside more specialist interventions.
- The Right to Participation in Youth Justice Research
- Children as Covert Human Intelligence Sources: Spies First, Children Second
The Covert Human Intelligence Sources (Criminal Conduct) Act 2021 empowers the police, and other authorities, throughout the United Kingdom to use children as Covert Human Intelligence Sources (CHIS) and to authorise these children to engage in criminality, with no criminal liability, in return for information. In this article, we analyse the risk of severe physical and emotional harm that children face when acting as a CHIS and engaging in criminal behaviour to preserve their cover. This practice of using a child as a CHIS and encouraging children to engage in criminal conduct also runs counter to the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales’ ‘Child First’ vision of a youth justice system that respects children rights and operates in children’s best interests. Throughout the article we argue that, despite the existing safeguards, the emphasis should be on helping children to escape a criminal lifestyle, rather than entrenching them further in a life of criminality by encouraging them to act as a CHIS.
- The Social Dynamics of Adolescent Co-offending
This paper explores the social dynamics of adolescent co-offending and decision-making processes among co-offenders; and to investigate co-offending roles in relation to the nature of a specific crime. The sample consisted of 15 young people who were purposively sampled from a group of 14- to 17-year-old males who had been identified as at risk of criminal group involvement and referred to a community-based programme. Using a social identity framework, a thematic analysis was undertaken to investigate how the participants viewed their role in co-offending as part of a criminal group. Participants identified their roles in criminal groups as instigators, followers and group members. Planned crimes were either targeted or capitalised as part of other delinquent activities. Impulsive offending was opportunistic, impetuous or reactive. Furthermore, a new theoretical model to explain the social dynamics of co-offending was developed and the implications for co-offending prevention and intervention programmes are discussed.
- Rights of the Child in the Child Justice System
- CORRECTION NOTICE “Deterring children from crime through sentencing: can it be justified?”
- Challenges in the Future of Restorative Youth Justice in Ireland: Minimising Intervention, Maximising Participation
While restorative approaches encompass a small proportion of youth justice practices in Ireland, the new Youth Justice Strategy (2021–2027) aims to include more victims in restorative justice, expand family conferencing and train youth justice professionals in restorative practices. This article discusses the legal, policy and practice contexts of these developments, considering how Ireland has defined, used and researched restorative youth justice to date. It situates the ongoing efforts to meet victims’ and children’s needs, and to change criminal justice cultures, in the international criminological and legal literature on minimum intervention and child participation, analysing the possibilities and challenges facing restorative youth justice in Ireland.
- I’m Trying to Save My Family: Parent Experiences of Child Criminal Exploitation
Despite growing awareness of child criminal exploitation, there is a dearth of evidence relating to parent views and experiences. This article presents interview findings from parents with lived experience of parenting a criminally exploited child. Early warning signs, such as behaviour changes, disengagement from school and child disappearances, were often rationalised in response to family circumstances or normal teenage development. Not knowing the child’s whereabouts, increased missing episodes and disengagement from the family prompted parents to seek help. Findings highlighted the need for parent involvement in the development of suitable responses at the individual, local and national levels.
Featured documents
- Book Review: Confronting Crime: Crime Control Policy under New Labour
- Neighbourhood Projects and Preventing Delinquency
- ‘Just Waiting’: The Nature and Effect of Uncertainty on Young People in Remand Custody in Ireland
This article examines the feelings of uncertainty experienced by 62 young people, aged 16—21, detained on remand in Ireland. It argues that this experience of uncertainty is an important phenomenon since it can lessen their ability both to cope while in custody and to progress after release. While...
- Diverging or Emerging from Law? The Practice of Youth Justice in Ireland
The Children Act 2001 is the statutory framework for youth justice in Ireland. Fully in force since 2007, aspects of the Act appear to be unimplemented while in other areas practice has diverged from the Act’s provisions. Three areas are used to show where youth justice practice has diverged from...
- Book Reviews: B. Goldson, Dictionary of Youth Justice, Willan Publishing, Cullompton, 2008, £24.99 Pb, ISBN 978—1—84392—293—3
- Book Review: Young Offenders: Law, Policy and Practice
- Book Review: Drug Trying and Drug Use Across Adolescence, Doing Justice to Treatment, Risks and Responses, NE Choices, Taking the Message Home, Doing it for Themselves
- The Role of the Study–Work School: A Chinese Case Study on Early Intervention and Child-Centred Juvenile Justice
Despite governmental and cultural differences, many jurisdictions are experiencing common tensions between care and control within juvenile justice. The study–work school is an early intervention measure in China aiming at child protection and crime prevention. Relying on empirical data, this...
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