Juvenile Justice in UK Law

  • The effectiveness of the juvenile justice system
    • No. 5-2, May 2005
    • Criminology & Criminal Justice
    Systematic assessment of the substantial research evidence on ‘what works’ has shown that flagship programmes have a modest effect, on average, in changing the futur...
  • Learning From The Scottish Juvenile Justice System
    • No. 47-1, March 2000
    • Probation Journal
    David Smith argues that the distinctive welfare orientation of the Juvenile Justice System in Scotland allows for progressive and developmental practice in a context of voluntarism, and an inter-ag...
  • Counterproductive Juvenile Justice
    • No. 35-2, August 2002
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    Abstract By describing evaluations demonstrating that carefully planned and executed interventions can have harmful effects, the author argues that programs to prevent crime should be t...
  • Italian Juvenile Justice: Tolerance, Leniency or Indulgence?
    • No. 6-2, August 2006
    • Youth Justice
    This paper offers a critique and further development of points made in Scalia’s account of Italian juvenile justice as a ‘lesson in tolerance’, published in ...
  • Delinquency Control and Juvenile Justice in China
    • No. 32-1, April 1999
    • Journal of Criminology (formerly Australian and New Zealand Journal of Criminology)
    This paper provides an overview of the recent developments in juvenile justice in China. With the improvement in the overall economy, there has been a genuine rise in delinquency. This paper descri...
  • Juvenile Justice: A Vision for the Millennium
    • No. 2-4, October 2000
    • International Journal of Police Science and Management
    This paper reviews the historical development of juvenile justice, provides critical analysis of the governmental perspective, identifies current and prospective programme models and examines trend...
  • In Defence of Children and Youth: Reforming Juvenile Justice Policies
    • No. 15-2, June 2013
    • International Journal of Police Science and Management
    When US Attorney-General Eric Holder unveiled Defending Childhood in 2010, he signalled that the Department of Justice was prioritising the victimisation and abuse of children and youth with federa...
  • Three Faces of the ‘Post-Socialist’ Juvenile Justice Systems
    • No. 19-3, December 2019
    • Youth Justice
    In comparative juvenile justice, it is often suggested that Eastern European juvenile jurisdictions have a similar, ‘post-socialist’, character. This presumption indicates a certain level of unifor...
  • A Juvenile Justice Approach Built on Human Rights Principles
    • No. 8-3, December 2008
    • Youth Justice
    This article by the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights explains the importance of ensuring that juvenile justice approaches incorporate compliance with children's rights standards in t...
  • A Lesson in Tolerance? Juvenile Justice in Italy
    • No. 5-1, April 2005
    • Youth Justice
    Authoritarian crime control, driven in particular by notions of zero tolerance, appears to be a growing feature of many, if not all, systems of juvenile justice ...
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