Evaluation Of Youth Justice

Evaluation Of Youth
Justice

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
From early decades Wales and England had been responsible for detaining huge number
of children in the custody in comparison with any other country. Current youth justice system
used to convict, punish and prosecute persons under 18 years of age who are responsible for
committing criminal offences. The objective of the system is prevent young persons and
children. With the increase in demand for justice services has charged and police officials and
the young offending personal has rightly gained more attention to deal with minor offending.
These services focused on dealing with those children who remain in the most difficult situation
to rehabilitate. The basic principle that underlined youth justice system is treat those who are
involved in risk of offending or one with offending behaviour at children (Abrams, Jordan and
Montero, 2018). The legislations where established in line with United Nation Convention on the
Rights of the children which aims at ensuring rights and obligations that are mentioned within its
framework. The youth justice system looks after the welfare services like housing, education,
social services and health of juveniles and also provide rehabilitation guidelines.
MAIN BODY
In the beginning of 18 century no category of young offender or juvenile delinquency and
the practice of penal system worked to focus on differentiation between children and adults. At
the age of seven year a child was deemed to be fully capable to understand the law and exposed
them to penalties as adults. The era of 19 century arose the need for social reforms and child
saving initiatives were taken. May philanthropists focus there concerned on conditions of poor
children and on establishing the difference between dangerous and criminal class. In a nutshell
there was the need to protect children but on the same time to pay equal attention on victim
threat dualism. Similar concerns was undertaken by the committee for investigating juvenile
delinquency in Metropolis in 1815 and further concluded to establish distinctive responses for
retributive and punitive reactions for dealing with young offenders (Bailleau and Cartuyvels,
2010). In year 1817, reformation of juvenile offenders and prison discipline argued the need for
separation of juvenile from adults counterparts. Therefore the series of initiatives gave rise to
frame legislation for child together with young specific institutions and courts. Reformist liberal
government established a statutory legislation which was known as Children act, for providing
jurisdiction and welfare policies to delinquent. In 1998 Crime and Disorder Act aimed at