Practising in a context of ambivalence: the challenge for youth justice workers

Date

2002-02-01

Advisors

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

ISSN

1473-2254

Volume Title

Publisher

SAGE

Type

Article

Peer reviewed

Abstract

Description

The model in this jointly authored article was developed as a shared enterprise. The interest in the article from Youth Justice practitioners, trainers and policy makers, the target audience, lead to the authors being asked to give a key note presentation to the Nacro Annual Youth Crime Conference Children, young people and crime – further reforms for youth justice? in April 2003. The model developed has had an impact on the Youth Justice training materials, challenging the perception that increased accountability necessarily requires a decrease in practitioner discretion. All feedback from practitioners and trainers has been very positive.

Keywords

RAE 2008, UoA 40 Social Work and Social Policy & Administration

Citation

Eadie, T. and Canton, Robert (2002) Practising in a context of ambivalence: The challenge for youth justice workers. Youth Justice. 2 (1), pp. 14-26.

Rights

Research Institute

Institute for Research in Criminology, Community, Education and Social Justice