Balancing the Response to Youth Crime: Prospects for a Restorative Juvenile Justice in the Twenty-First Century (From Juvenile Justice: Policies, Programs, and Services, Second Edition, P 371-408, 1998, Albert R. Roberts, ed. - See NCJ 170093)

• NCJ Number: 170111
• Author(s): G Bazemore; M Umbreit
• Date Published: 1998
• Length: 38 pages
• Grant Number(s): 92-JN-CX-0005
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP)
• Sale Source: Nelson-Hall Publishers
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

This chapter explores a new framework for approaches to juvenile justice based on the restorative justice philosophy and the Balanced Approach mission.

Abstract

Current approaches in juvenile justice, based on a retributive philosophical framework and the individual treatment mission, have failed to satisfy the basic needs of victims, the community, and juvenile offenders. This chapter explores a new framework based on the restorative justice philosophy and the Balanced Approach mission. This framework requires that juvenile justice systems devote primary attention to reparation for harm to victims and the community, increasing offender competencies, and protecting the public through processes in which offenders, victims, and the community are all active participants. Balanced and restorative justice reform builds on existing programs and practices such as victim offender mediation, creative community service, restitution work experience and other competency development strategies for enhancing public safety. The chapter includes discussion questions based on the information presented. Figure, tables, appendixes, notes, references