Assessment of theoretical and practical approaches to youth offending

Assessment of theoretical and
practical approaches to youth
offending

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Discuss contextual introduction of report....................................................................................1
Discuss about government policies and related initiatives in youth offending..........................2
With dominant theoretical perspectives, consider:......................................................................3
From the 'Guideline' list below, please consider:........................................................................4
Critically analyse how youth offending impacts public services.................................................8
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Youth offend or crime basically refers to the behaviour of teenagers who is acting in a
manner which is inconsistent with societal anticipations. Youth offend is a behaviour by a young
person. This is also known as juvenile delinquency. This youth is commonly associated with peer
pressures to deviate, parental neglect towards their kid's behaviour and lack of social
opportunities that would foster their positive attitude towards their lifestyle. This report
comprises of the factors which contributes to youth offending in society. This report also
comprises of impacts of youth offending on public services and other related theories, policies,
and skills which are applicable to a multi-agency called as Fairwick Youth Offending Service
who works under criminal justice system (Baidawi and et. al., 2021). This will also include
initiatives relating to youth justice system and other aspects such as parenting , schooling,
issuances of drug and alcohol use or social situation. The balance between deterrence and
rehabilitation will also be discussed.
TASK 1
Discuss contextual introduction of report.
This report is about a young girl named Jane Doe who's found guilty for possessing knife in
public place with possession of controlled drug of class A Heroin (Smith and Gray, 2019). The
offence was put in consideration when police received a call from a concerned member of public
stating that he witnessed two hooded young people hiding knife in public place with an
unidentified package underneath parked vehicle. On police arrival, they both were located and
detained by help of CCTV images where they were seen discarding weapons and unidentified
package under car. Weapons were seized later by police and unidentified package turned out to
be class A drugs (Heroin). In defence, Jane explained that she carried sharp knife for personal
protection as she had heard negative things about that friend. She also stated that she was
unknown of fact that his friend was also carrying weapon until both discarded them. But later it
came into knowledge that package was of his boyfriend's who's is member of Laurel and Hardy
gang group (Bouffard and Armstrong, 2021). He explained that she didn't knew what package
contained and she hesitated to carry package. During that period, Jane was facing personal issues
at home. She suffers from panic attacks and anxiety when she's at home for longer time though
she has good relations with her family but she hated her father he used to yell at everyone and
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