JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM

Juvenile Justice System and the Approach to Juvenile Crime

Juvenile Justice System and the Approach to Juvenile Crime

Introduction

Promoting strategies in dealing with juvenile justice system is one of the most serious challenges to the contemporary justice system and law enforcement agencies in protecting the interest of our society. Previous research has found high rates of re-offending amongst young offenders coming into contact with the juvenile justice system. It has been long argued that the ideologies of the traditional criminal justice response to youth crime using tougher penalties had not effectively reduced crime. The restorative justice proposes an ...