Youth Court - 10 suggested characteristics of a good youth justice system [pdf, 188 KB]
...offender with care and protection issues is, the more they are seen as a product of their family and not fully culpable. Such young people present a difficult challenge to the criminal justice system. On the one hand their backgrounds of abuse and environmental dysfunction categorise them as vulnerable victims in need of help. Often it is this background that is causative of offending in the first place, and it needs to be addressed to prevent future offending. On the other hand, t...