Description
This assessment is worth 100% of the module mark.
Where a document/reading/link is included for review, this should not be the sole resource – you should use additional sources as appropriate
It is suggested that each task should be approximately 900 words in length.
Task 1: Youth justice in England and Wales
The current youth justice system is based on New Labour’s major reforms introduced in the Crime and Disorder Act (1998). Critically discuss the main aims of this ‘New Youth Justice’ and how it differed radically from the ‘justice’ model it replaced.
Task 2: Risk factors
Critically discuss the utility of risk factors in helping understand criminal and anti-social behaviour in young people and critically evaluate how both risk and protective factors were incorporated into policy by the Youth Justice Board (2005) in the category of ‘Family’.
YJB. 2005. Risk and Protective Factors. London: Youth Justice Board for England and Wales.
Task 3: Children as Victims
‘In many respects, the concentration on young people as the perpetrators of crime has left us blind to the extent to which young people are victims’.
Evaluate this statement and critically discuss how children can become victims ‘behind closed doors’ and why this is not detected in many cases.
Furlong, A. and Cartmel, F. 1997. Young People and Social Change: Individualization and risk in late modernity. Buckingham: Open University Press. (p.93)
