Transformed Youth Justice?

Steve Bradford and Rod Morgan

Public Money & Management, 2005, vol. 25, issue 5, 283-290

Abstract: Of the ten pledges offered by New Labour in their 1997 Election Manifesto, one concerned crime. It contained a specific youth justice commitment: ‘We will be tough on crime and tough on the causes of crime, and halve the time it takes persistent juvenile offenders to come to court’. In the 2001 Manifesto, Labour reported that they had substantially achieved this pledge: crime was falling and‘The time from arrest to sentence for persistent young offenders is down from 142 days to 89 days—on track to halve the time within the five years promised in 1997′. Youth justice had been reformed and the Government would move on: it would build on the youth justice reforms by tackling provision for 18- to 20-year-olds. This article addresses four issues: why did youth justice reform figure prominently in New Labour's 1997 plans; in what respects has the system of youth justice been reformed; have the reforms been a success; and what does the immediate future for youth justice hold?

Date: 2005
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/j.1467-9302.2005.00485.x (text/html)
Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:25:y:2005:i:5:p:283-290

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://www.tandfonline.com/pricing/journal/RPMM20

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9302.2005.00485.x

Access Statistics for this article

Public Money & Management is currently edited by Michaela Lavender

More articles in Public Money & Management from Taylor & Francis Journals
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Chris Longhurst ().