Working with young people in a culture of public protection Mike Nash Introduction This chapter has two aims. One is to establish if there is such a thing as a culture of public protection and the other is to determine if this will impact upon the working practices of those involved in Youth Offending Teams (YOTs). A brief review of recent penal trends will set the context for the growth in public protection processes and cultures. This will then suggest ways in which criminal justice agencies, and key decisions, are affected by an increasingly risk
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) are now one of the central features of government policy in the UK for managing the risk presented by violent and sexual offenders. Although there has been research and debate concerning the use of MAPPA with adult offenders, their application to young people has received relatively little attention until now.
Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements & Youth Justice extends the existing literature on public protection. It provides a detailed exploration of MAPPA policy and practice in order to prompt further debate about the implications of the risk paradigm for young people and youth justice practitioners.
In the book, key academics, practitioners and policy makers consider a range of theoretical and practical issues raised by the introduction of MAPPA including risk and children’s rights, the use of professional discretion by practitioners, alternative approaches to risk management and suggestions for future policy development. It will be of interest to both professionals and academics working with young offenders and in youth justice.
Young people and violence: balancing public protection with meeting needs Gwyneth Boswell Introduction In recent years there has been much political talk of the need to ‘rebalance’ the criminal justice system in favour of victims of crime. This ethos was given expression in the White Paper Justice for all (Home Office et al, 2002) and in the subsequent 2003 Criminal Justice Act that introduced new, lengthy custodial sentences for the express purpose of public protection. The need for public protection is determined by an assessment of dangerousness by the
111 SIX Public protection in practice: Multi-agency Public Protection arrangements (MaPPa) Hazel Kemshall and Jason Wood1 introduction The late 1990s saw the development of Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (MAPPA) in England and Wales (with slightly later developments in Scotland). These arrangements were given legislative force in the 2000 Criminal Justice and Courts Services Act (sections 67 and 68), with police, probation (and prisons added by the 2003 Criminal Justice Act; CJA) as ‘responsible authorities’ tasked with risk assessing and
59 4 Promoting public protection in youth justice: challenges for policy and practice David Monk Introduction Tensions in our approach to children and young people who offend are by no means new and over the last 50 years or so these have been expressed in a variety of epithets, which, while headline grabbing, have not always been helpful. ‘Social welfare’ versus ‘justice’, ‘deprived’ versus ‘depraved’, ‘deeds’ versus ‘needs’ and ‘care’ versus ‘control’ are just a few examples of how this debate was framed in the post-war years, particularly the 1960s and
127 EIGHT Restorative justice, community action and public protection Kieran McCartan and Nikki McKenzie Introduction Public engagement is at the heart of not only criminology, but all social sciences. In recent years, criminology has developed a renewed interest in social engagement, with this professional–public dialogue being seen as essential to developing a rounded public interest in the discipline as well as related policies and practices (Loader and Sparks, 2010). This chapter will discuss the importance of having a rounded debate about
421 Policy & Politics • vol 42 • no 3 • 421-37 • © Policy Press 2014 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655495 article The paradox of security regulation: public protection versus normative legitimation Martin J. Smith, martin.smith@york.ac.uk Adam White, adam.white@york.ac.uk University of York, UK The growth of domestic private security in advanced democratic countries has resulted in a paradox. While the market is seen to provide a solution to the inefficient production of a key
43 THREE the Mental health act: dual diagnosis, public protection and legal dilemmas in practice Graham Noyce introduction This chapter will review the care pathways available to mentally disordered offenders who have a dual diagnosis (hereafter referred to as dually diagnosed clients [DDCs]). There is no prescribed legal definition for dual diagnosis (also known as co-morbidity), which serves to complicate an already complex debate around the provisioning of appropriate services for this client group. There is a great deal of debate concerning the nature
John A. Dove itetson School of Business and Economics, Mercer University, 1400 Coleman Avenue, Macon, (!A 31207-USA Public Protection versus Public Choice: An Analysis of Merger Enforcement Behavior by State Attorneys General Abstract - A large body of literature has emerged regarding the proper role and scope of state level merger oversight and enforcement in the U.S. , handled by each states respective attorney general (AG). Much of it suggests that due to the set of incentives and constraints that state AGs face, state level enforcement has become
parole processes, austere public protection arrangements, particularly stringent licence conditions, and sex offender registration and notification. This is accompanied with government rhetoric and criminal justice practice involving a range of negative labels, such as ‘high risk’, ‘dangerous’, or ‘sex offender’. Less formally, ‘normal’ prisoners may adopt terms such as ‘nonce’, ‘kiddie fiddler’, ‘beast’, or ‘bacon’ to refer to those convicted of sexual offences. Among the public and media, they are emotively labelled ‘pervert’, ‘paedo’, or simply ‘evil’, with
