RT Article
T1 Transatlantic ‘Positive Youth Justice’: a distinctive new model for responding to offending by children?
JF Crime prevention and community safety
VO 20
IS 3
SP 208
OP 222
A1 Case, Stephen
A2 Haines, Kevin 1963-
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1700204734
AB 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.
K1 Positive youth justice
K1 Children
K1 Child-friendly
DO 10.1057/s41300-018-0046-7