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Diversion in Youth Justice - What Can We Learn from Historical and Contemporary Practices? (Hardcover)
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Diversion in Youth Justice - What Can We Learn from Historical and Contemporary Practices? (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
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Diversion in youth justice is a subject of enduring interest. It
concerns the processes by which decisions are made about whether or
not to prosecute young offenders, and this book explores the
continuing debates and historical developments which shape these
processes. The treatment of young offenders is a contentious
subject, and this book provides a comprehensive review of out of
court decision-making in the context of wider arguments about how
we should deal with the crimes of the young. This book follows a
broadly historical structure, exploring the development of ideas
and approaches to agency decision-making at the point of
prosecution. This leads to the identification of a number of
distinctive 'models' of diversion, reflecting both specific periods
of time and particular philosophies of intervention with young
people in trouble with the law. Based on this classification, this
book explores the implications for wider debates about childhood,
crime and punishment and how these relate to theories of social
control. This, in turn, leads to the conclusion that diversionary
ideas and practices act as a kind of barometer for wider
developments in the governance of youth. This is one of the very
few books that focuses exclusively on diversion as a feature of
youth justice, and it provides a range of original and contemporary
insights into this subject area which remains of considerable
interest in this field, both academically and in practice. The
ideas outlined here will contribute to new thinking in youth
criminology, as the discipline responds to a prolonged period of
apparent liberalisation in the treatment of young offenders which
has yet to be fully understood or properly theorised.
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