Transatlantic ‘Positive Youth Justice’: a distinctive new model for responding to offending by children?
A model of ‘positive youth justice’ has been developed on both sides of the Atlantic to challenge the hegemonic punitivity and neo-correctionalism of contemporary actuarial risk-based approaches and the conceptually-restricted rights-based movement of child-friendly justice. This paper examines the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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[2018]
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Crime prevention and community safety
Year: 2018, Volume: 20, Issue: 3, Pages: 208-222 |
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| Summary: | A model of ‘positive youth justice’ has been developed on both sides of the Atlantic to challenge the hegemonic punitivity and neo-correctionalism of contemporary actuarial risk-based approaches and the conceptually-restricted rights-based movement of child-friendly justice. This paper examines the origins, main features, guiding principles and underpinning evidence bases of the different versions of positive youth justice developed in England/Wales (Children First, Offenders Second) and the USA (Positive Youth Justice Model) and their respective critiques of negative and child-friendly forms of youth justice. Comparing and contrasting these two versions enables an evaluation of the extent to which positive youth justice presents as a coherent and coordinated transatlantic ‘movement’, as opposed to disparate critiques of traditional youth justice with limited similarities. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-4629 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/s41300-018-0046-7 |