Youth Offending Team

required in a court setting; they will advise if they are feeling worried, nervous or afraid. If an individual becomes a young offender the Youth offending teams within the court support them by; staying in touch with a young person if they’re sentenced in custody, charged with a crime and has to go to court or if a young person is arrested. The youth offending team work closely with the probation services (Gov.uk, 2015). Leeds Crown Court The first impression of the Crown Court building is initially

eliminate risk in families and communities. Resilience is the capacity to recover quick from difficulties. This is a trait or characteristic that has been thought to keep some young offenders from reoffending, Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), Structured Assessment of Protective Factors for Violence Risk, and Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability are some risk assessment tools that related to resilience. Resilience has been identified as both a personal quality or characteristic

Spofford was to absorb serious juvenile offenders due to the Juvenile Offender Act. This resulted in a shift of the service population from status offender to include more serious juvenile offenders (Varley, 1987, p. 6). This change in legislation and youth population

incarcerated (World Prison Brief, 2016), of whom many are juveniles. It is well documented that youths who enter this system are more likely to suffer a host of negative health and lifestyle outcomes, such as alcohol/drug abuse, high school dropout, and mental health problems. Such phenomena occur in stark contrast with the aims of the US juvenile justice system, which supposedly intends to help offending youths re-assimilate back into society as productive citizens. As previously mentioned, incarceration

this essay I will be looking a critical incident reflection which I had when I went for my professional visit at the youth offending team in London. Using Reflection will be used to reveal how well or badly the situation was handled by the staff this will then enable me to see how the incident and the overall reflection has influence personal learning for me Hogston and Simpson (1999) says that reflection is “a process of reviewing an experience of practice in order to better describe, analyses

Week 2, discuss the purpose and functions of the youth justice system in England and Wales in terms of your own practice and experience. Introduction In this assignment I am going to discuss the purpose and functions of the Youth Justice System. I will start by exploring the build up to the legislations that underpins the Youth Justice System which is the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. I will also discuss the purpose and functions of Youth Justice System and how my role contributes to their

The main legislation governing the youth justice system is the Crime and Disorder Act 1998, which sets out the system's primary aim which is to prevent offending and re-offending by children and young people. The 1998 Act developed the Youth Justice Board and also the Youth Offending Teams which can be found in every local authority in England and Wales. It is the belief that the main aim of the youth justice system is to prevent offending and re-offending by young people and children (National Audit

measures that are given to young people before they get taken to court, they want to help give the youths a chance to change their ways. The 2 measures are Reprimand and a Final warning. A reprimand is a verbal warning given to the youth by a police officer. The child may then be sent off to a youth offending team to complete voluntary work also known as community service, this will help to teach the youth a lesson not to punish them. A final warning is given to a child who admits that they are wrong

Outline and evaluate strategies used by criminal agencies to control youth crime. An estimate number of 10 to 17 yr olds in UK in 1999 was 2704392 males and 2561681 females. These young people represent of the general population and are also often the group who elicit the most concern and discussion within local communities and the media. There is a big interest in the consistent crimes in this age group, resulted in a lot of research being made. Therefore this essay will be establishing research

various children services in several local authorities, for example mother and baby units, children homes, leaving care and the youth offending teams. Claudine has also worked in the voluntary sector as a criminal justice manager. Claudine is passionate about education and holds various qualifications inclusive of; a BA in criminology and social policies and an MA in Youth Crime, Probation and Applied Criminology. Claudine has also studied MA in Social work, holds a PTTLS (preparing to teach for