The last issue of the Probation Journal contained a series of analytic and forward-looking papers which attempted to throw some light on different aspects of the new Labour government's criminal justice policy. Here, Ian Butler, Senior Lecturer in Social Work, and Mark Drakeford, Lecturer in Social Policy, both teaching at the University of Wales, offer some similarly penetrating thoughts on the highly topical subject of Youth Justice.
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References
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Home Office (1995) Criminal Statistics: England and Wales 1994, London: Home Office
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For a useful summary of research into the effectiveness of various penological responses to youth crime, see Appendix 1, Audit Commission (1996) Misspent Youth... Young People and CrimeLondon: Audit Commission
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See, for example, the speech of the Home Secretary, Jack Straw to the Police Federation on 21st May 1997 in which he referred to the doli incapax rule as both 'archaic' - which it is - and 'absurd' - which it certainly is not.
