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By Pickford

ISBN-10: 1859415342

ISBN-13: 9781859415344

This cutting edge textual content examines modern concerns in adolescence justice within the gentle of the sweeping reforms brought by way of the Crime and illness Act 1998 and the adolescence Justice and felony facts invoice 1999. It brings jointly present debates in either the perform and thought of teenybopper justice intervention and, within the gentle of the governments inter-agency method of the matter of stripling illegal activity, offers an inter-disciplinary exam of those discussions. together with contributions from either lecturers, magistrates and social paintings practitioners, it's a precious textual content for college students of criminology, legislations and social paintings, in addition to a worthy source for formative years justice practitioners.

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Article 3 of the European Convention covers the prohibition of torture which includes degrading treatment or punishment. Linked to this, the Beijing Rules state that, when a young person is sentenced, it should amount to a ‘fair reaction’ – in other words, it should adhere to the principle of proportionality. It could possibly be argued that the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 impliedly sanctions the use of deterrent sentences in order to dissuade others from certain behaviour and that such sentences may, therefore, fall foul of the Human Rights Act 1998.

This Act, in effect, created two provisions whereby the systems of control (the criminal justice system) and of care (the welfare system) became intertwined when dealing with young people who became subject to such orders. The Ingleby Report In 1960, the Ingleby Report produced a more liberal understanding of youth criminality than had been seen previously, perhaps reflecting a recognition of the influence of criminological debates of the time that focused upon social and environmental, rather than individualistic causes of crime and an acknowledgment of labelling theory, which had flagged up the negative results of stigmatising young people who took part in anti-social behaviour, not only the effects on their life chances but also the likelihood of re-offending.

The culpability for delinquent behaviour appears to be jointly placed upon the shoulders of the young person and at the door of his or her parent or guardian. Under the legislation, both can be ‘punished’ for the same act, amounting, in effect, to a dispersal of responsibility. When the Government pledged £35 million in September 1999 to facilitate the establishment of projects aimed at preventing offending by children and young people, Lord Warner, chair of the Youth Justice Board, said: We will no longer accept excuses for criminal behaviour from young offenders xxxix Youth Justice: Theory and Practice or their parents.

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