Sentences with phrase «youth justice system»

We need to reform youth justice systems, ensuring that the abuse of children's basic needs and rights ends and re-focus on returning children to their families with the support to enable them to thrive, achieve and never return to the system.»

But cutting the YJB won't save much money — around # 100,000 over three years — and threatens, through undermining a joined - up youth justice system, to actually increase costs over the long term through higher criminality and the attendant costs to individuals and the state.

The goal of the Department of Justice is to ensure a fair and effective youth justice system.

Done is responsible for meeting the Youth Justice Board's target to reduce re-offending and for developing the government's plans to create a modern youth justice system.

This should inform a trauma - responsive, age appropriate and humane youth justice system.»

Encompass the entire Northern Territory youth justice system, not just issues relating to detention facilities;

«Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisations (ACCHO) have the greatest coverage across the Territory and work with Aboriginal children, young people and families everyday on child protection and youth justice system prevention and early intervention support.»

His wife taught the first Cree kindergarten class in Edmonton and his father, a lawyer, worked in the Aboriginal youth justice system in the 1960s.

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«Finally, we are further upset that the terms of reference are not cast widely enough to include the wider NT youth justice system, rather than a narrow focus on youth detention, and that they do not specify an examination of the huge over-representation of Aboriginal youth in detention.

But you don't have to go far back to remember the problems that existed in the youth justice system prior to 1997.

So we tried to develop a joined up youth justice system, with the Home Office and later the MoJ, the Departments of Health and Education as well as the police and local government — all of this overseen by the Youth Justice Board.

The intolerable outbreak of crime we saw on the streets of our cities this summer shined a light on our youth justice system and the underlying reasons why young people sometimes feel they have nothing to lose and a lot to gain from crime.

But it is a mechanism that merits further emphasis within our youth justice system and something Labour would be committed to expanding where victims feel it would help.

Community punishments are a valuable part of our youth justice system.

So there is something distinctive about the youth justice system which shows we can reduce crime and imprisonment at the same time.

We now have, I hope, an opportunity for a grown up debate on how to make our youth justice system work, for the young people within it and the communities it protects — by examining the root causes of youth offending, what preventative action can be taken, how to most appropriately punish and reform offenders and rehabilitate them back into our society.

However, for more serious crimes committed by young people, charge by the police and entry into the youth justice system where a legal punishment is passed down will be necessary.

They worked with local Youth Offending Teams to deal with young offenders through the Youth Justice System — from arrest to diversionary options or to charge.

And how our youth justice system can be made to work for the young people within it.

But public confidence in our justice system, including the youth justice system, does require some punishment for crimes committed to be inflicted on the perpetrator.

But at the same time, have a youth justice system that effectively punishes and reforms those who do commit offenc es.

Over 70 % of children in custody have been involved with, or in the care of social services 40 % had been homeless before entering custody More than a quarter of children in the youth justice system have been identified with special educational needs, almost half are under achieving in school and 90 % of young men in prison were excluded from school More than half of all offenders were convicted of their first crime before they reached 18 and a further 21 % before their 24th birthday.

The research found that once young people had entered the youth justice system the patterns of over - and under - representation remained.

New research from the Institute for Criminal Policy Research at King's College, London, examines whether the police and the youth justice system treat young people from different ethnic groups in different ways.

Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Commission for Racial Equality and the Equality and Human Rights Commission, the research shows that black and mixed - race youths are over-represented in the youth justice system.

Tony Blair rejected his criticisms, citing a National Audit Office (NAO) report that showed the youth justice system had been «substantially transformed» since 1997 and highlighting plans to build a further 8,000 adult prison places.

This has placed restorative justice at the heart of the youth justice system, integrated within both the prosecution and sentencing processes.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said last October that the new laws look to change the way 16 - and 17 - year - olds are processed in the criminal and youth justice systems and changes the placement (in prison) they may receive.

Studies have shown that young people transferred to the adult criminal justice system are 34 % more likely to be re-arrested for violent and other crimes than youth retained in a youth justice system.

In the Youth Justice System the principal aim is to prevent offending.

The report showed 60 per cent of individuals in the youth justice system had previously been expelled of suspended, while more than 90 per cent of adults in prisons did not complete secondary school.

The project seeks to involve Harrow School boys in work with young people known to the Youth Justice System.

Past recipients of this award have improved the youth justice system, advanced justice for Indigenous communities, assisted women in abusive situations, and strengthened community clinics to help the poor.

As well as working in the youth justice system, Aika has developed Just For Kids Law.

Quebec's objection to Bill C - 10 is based on a lack of science to support the bill's changes to the youth justice system and on social and cultural values about how young offenders should be treated.

It is this science that Quebec's Minister of Justice Jean - Marc Fournier asked the federal government to reveal, to support the omnibus crime bill's new mandatory minimum sentences and changes to the youth justice system, when he appeared before the House of Commons standing committee on justice and human rights on Nov. 2.

He is an author of over 150 articles, books and reports covering a wide range of topics including public knowledge and attitudes about sentencing and other aspects of the youth and criminal justice system, crime and the operation of the criminal justice system in aboriginal communities, trends in criminal victimization and the operation of the youth justice system.

He has been doing research on the youth justice system for the past 30 years.

The youth justice system affects individuals between the ages of 12 and 17 who get into trouble with the law.

To help explain recent changes to the Youth Criminal Justice Act, we created a Youth Justice Fact Sheet that explains the changes and how the youth justice system has been impacted.

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989 directs that any youth justice system should hold the child's interests as paramount and that any punitive role should be distinctly secondary.

Due to the rehabilitative focus of the youth justice system, often charges can be diverted outside the court process for resolutions through extra-judicial measures.

«There is now an established framework for delivering effective prevention programmes across the youth justice system and we welcome this renewed focus, which it is hoped will support continuing success.

Too many children, families and communities have been harmed by our punitive and ineffective child protection and youth justice systems, we owe it to them to ensure each and every recommendation from the Royal Commission is pursued with vigour from all levels of government,» said Shahleena Musk, a Senior Lawyer at the Centre.