Analyzing Knife Crime: A Reflective Report on Youth Justice System

This report provides a reflective analysis of knife crime within the context of the youth justice system in England and Wales. It highlights the role of multi-agency teams like Local Knife Crime Teams (YOTs) in addressing offenses committed by young individuals. The report emphasizes the importance of preventing offending through various interventions and rehabilitation programs, including Youth Offenders Institutions (YOIs) and local government initiatives. It also discusses the adverse effects of knife crime on public services and communities, advocating for collaborative efforts between public services and youth programs. Furthermore, the report references acts and policies developed by the London government to address youth offending, such as the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 and the Power of Criminal Courts Act 2000, aimed at detaining, training, and punishing offenders under the age of 18. The conclusion underscores the necessity of safeguarding youth from criminal activities through comprehensive plans and rehabilitation centers, enabling them to contribute ethically to society. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and past papers for students.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

MAIN BODY
Reflective professional practice is helpful in the reflection of professional practices which
can be further demolished by an individual in their own words. It can be expressed and depicted
in the ones own words. Knife Crime team is the multi agency team which coordinate with
individual when any offence is being performed by an individual. Young offenders are the
criminal who have convicted the crime and in law the criminal after committing the crime would
not be adult longer. The above report includes the reflective report on the basis of Knife Crime
The youth justice system in England and Wales consists of processes and organs which are used
to convict, prosecute and punish the individual under 18 year of age who has committed criminal
offence. The major aim of this justice system is to prevent offends done by young individuals
and children's. It is the government policy in United Kingdom for promoting work for preventing
offending by the young people. By work of the Local Knife Crime Teams (YOTs) broad range of
prevention work are targeted by offenders(Morris, 2015). About 4.7 million young individual
between 10 and 17 in Wales and England. In which the 130,000 had committed an offence dealt
by court where 236,000 are committed by boys and 60,000 are done by girls. The common theft
and violence against the individual are 56,000, monitoring offences are 37,000 and criminal
damages are 41,000. For offending youth from such the youth justice system has been developed
as the criminal cases for youth has been raising day by day.
As individual it has been learned that the youth justice system important for the Knife
Crime on public services, communities and individuals. The Knife Crime has an adverse effect
on the public services, and communities. As the nearby individuals also learn the false things or
offences which is being rendered by the individual in the society(Ttofi and et.al.,2016). This type
of offence must be guarded by the society with the help of justice system so that the other
individual and youth can be safeguarded by the criminal acts. It can be accessed that
development is necessarily needed in this field and further it must be implied by the public
services. The public service must be collaborate with the different youth program so that they
can safeguard the individuals which are being affected by the several criminal act. It has been
growing very rapidly among the youth and it must be prevented juts now until it has become the
major cause of threat to the society.
As I had accessed that the third agencies plays a major role in the third sector agencies
for preventing and rehabilitation of Knife Crime. They can be rehabilitated with the help of

various institutions that can be Youth Offenders Institutions (YOIs), Securing Training Centres
and Local Authority secure children's homes (LASCHs). The local government plays a major
role in offending the youth from the crime and reducing the offending in the London city. This
can be achieved by the coordination with local services which can be rooted in the local
democratic and structure accountability. This can be done by coordinating and partnership with
the local workings among the police, local NHS, probation services and other community &
voluntary sector partner. The commission aims at rendering the services, drugs, recovery and
alcohol treatment to the offenders(Fagan and Benedini, 2018). Supporting them if anyone is
suffering from the mental health issues, housing benefits, employment support and social
services. They use the enforcement for civil powers which can be ASBOs, dispersal orders and
injunctions for tacking the behaviours of offenders.
The government had set up the plan in May, 2013 for reforming rehabilitation and the
probation services. The plan extension is accepted and the various prohibition are developed for
rehabilitations services for offenders which have been served as short term sentence. Currently
the statutory provision is not received by government for this service. The major intention behind
that the majority of rehabilitation and probation service in the market place can be raised and
solved effectively(Homel and et.al.,2015). In short term it has described that the government will
closely work with the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime (MOPAC) and local government
should ensures that probation new service providers must work with the existing partner and are
responsible for reducing the offending among the youth. The major role is being played by the
Community Safety Partnerships and MOPAC in ensuring the accountability to the local
probation service providers.
It has been noted that there are various acts and policies which have been developed by
the London government for offending the youth. This all laws rules and regulation are helpful for
the local service provide and safeguarding the youth from such offences and providing the 73, of
the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 it was established for detaining and training the mental
disabled offenders under the age of 18 years (Armytage, P. and Ogloff, 2017). Section 90 of
Power of Criminal Courts Act 2000 which provides the individual under the age of 18 which
have convicted the murder which could be 53(2) and 53(3) renders the young and children who
have convicted certain serious offences other than murder this all comes under these sections this

all will be helpful in safeguarding and rendering the punishments according the offences being
done by the individual.
CONCLUSION
From the above study it is concluded that the knife crime plays a major role in the public
services, communities and society. Majorly the youth must be safeguarded by the local
government by developing the different plans and must allows the individual for not performing
such serious acts which can be harmful for them and the society. The local government is
working very passionately for reducing and tackling these offences with different rehabilitation
centres and partnerships so that they can let youth for not involving the serious and criminal
offences which can be harmful for their future and thus they can not perform the ethical and
services which must be rendered by them towards the society.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Armytage, P. and Ogloff, J., 2017. Youth justice review and strategy: Meeting needs and
reducing offending.
Fagan, A.A. and Benedini, K.M., 2018. Family Influences on Knife Crime. The Oxford
Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology.p.378.
Homel, R and et.al.,2015. Preventing the onset of Knife Crime: The impact of the Pathways to
Prevention Project on child behaviour and wellbeing. Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal
Justice.(481), p.1.
Morris, R., 2015. 'Youth justice practice is just messy'Knife Crime team practitioners: culture
and identity. British Journal of Community Justice.13(2). pp.47-58.
Ttofi, M.M and et.al.,2016. Protective factors against offending and violence: Results from
prospective longitudinal studies.