NCJ Number
179108
Journal
The Annals Volume: 564 Dated: July 1999 Pages: 81-108
Editor(s)
Ira M. Schwartz
Date Published
July 1999
Length
28 pages
Annotation
This article considers the implications of emerging practice based on a restorative community justice model for systematic reform in the context, content and structure of juvenile justice and the response to youth crime.
Abstract
Juvenile justice reform efforts seeking a more criminalized juvenile court and justice system, as well as those aimed at revitalizing the individual treatment mission, have failed to address the multiple justice needs of communities associated with youth crime, and have had an insular, singular focus on the needs and risks of offenders. In the late 1990s, a growing number of juvenile justice professionals began to embrace a more holistic vision for reform based on a normative concern with repairing the harm caused by crime to individuals and relationships and a commitment to victims, communities and offenders as primary stakeholders in the justice process. The article considers in-depth the new approach and its implications. Tables, figure, notes, references