Joined-up Youth Justice: Tackling Youth Crime in Partnership Book

Many people and agencies are now joining up their ideas and skills in new approaches to tackling the problems of youth crime through youth offending teams. This evidence-based book looks at the realities of joined-up youth justice beyond the ideology and rhetoric of partnership. Anyone who seeks a clearer view of the whole system - whether they are providers, recipients or students of the youth justice services; whether they have a central or more marginal role, should find here an abundance of information and analysis on: how youth offending teams are constructed and what they are trying to achieve; the place of youth offending teams at the heart of the collaborative youth justice plans and the contributions of the various agencies. This book charts and analyses in-depth the development of an exemplary youth offending team: its strategy, operation management, front-line practice, and its partnership projects. By reflecting on its experiences and analysing them in light of examples from other areas, a more complete picture is drawn of the youth justice system. The authors consider: the challenges faced by the managers, practitioners and project leaders; the ways in which the reforms have affected magistrates, victims and young people; how a wide range of interventions to "nip crime in the bud" or to minimize persistence in crime have been introduced; what is being done to make these interventions work and organizational and partnership problems that are arising and ways that are being developed to resolve them.Read More