Abstract
“Just desserts,’ ”crime control,“ and ”public protection“ are common phrases used to describe contemporary policy and legislation that gov-ern young people who commit serious crimes. In Canada (Anand, 1999a, Campbell, Dufresne, & Maclure, 2001; Hylton, 1994; Micucci, 1998), as well as the United States (Feld, 1993, 1999a, b), Britain and Wales (Goldson, 1999; Loveday, 1999), Sweden (Von Hofer, 2000), Australia, Japan, and South Africa (Butts & Harrell, 1998) sanctions for serious offences committed by young people are becoming more severe. This represents a significant shift from the welfare-based model of youth justice that prevailed during most of the twentieth century. One possible consequence of this policy shift is that the youth criminal justice system loses its distinctiveness and becomes more like the adult system of criminal justice (also known as ”gov-ern,“ Steinberg & Schwartz, 2000: see also Grisso, 1996; Salekin, Rogers, & Ustad, 2001; Scott, 2000; Steinberg & Cauffman, 1999). It is also possible that this kind of policy shift could result in continued differentiation of the youth justice system, thereby entrenching its distinctiveness.
This work was supported in part by a SSHRC operating grant to the first author.
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Connolly, D.A., Wayte, T.M., Lee, Z. (2004). From Crime Control to Welfare and Back Again. In: Moretti, M.M., Odgers, C.L., Jackson, M.A. (eds) Girls and Aggression. Perspectives in Law & Psychology, vol 19. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8985-7_15
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