Responding to Youth Crime

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. Contents include: 1. Criminal justice thinking about youth 2. Young 'actors' in criminal justice 'imaging of youth. 3. Traditional justice response to youth crime 4. Trends and costs of traditional criminal justice response to youth crime. 5. Towards partnership: changing perspective in criminal justice. 6. Criminal justice partnerships: selected experiences 7. The partnership benchmark for traditional criminal justice response 8. Criminal justice prevention of youth crime: future directions.