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A quarter of a century ago, the prevailing view about how best to respond to juvenile1 crime was dominated by the orthodoxy that criminal justice interventions had little or no impact on future offending behaviour (and could even be counterproductive) and that juvenile justice policy should, as far as possible, focus on diverting young offenders from the criminal justice system (see, e.g., Morris and Giller, 1987). By the beginning of the 1990s, frustration with the scientific community’s reticence to endorse criminal justice interventions and public concern over the frequent offending of a relatively small group of young offenders led to an almost complete reversal of the diversion orthodoxy that characterised the 1980s. This was exemplified by the passing of the 1991 Criminal Justice Act, which moved towards a “just deserts” approach that shifted the focus of sentencing towards the nature and seriousness of the offence, rather than the offender and his/her criminal record.
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Graham, J., Moore, C. (2006). Beyond Welfare Versus Justice: Juvenile Justice in England and Wales. In: Junger-Tas, J., Decker, S.H. (eds) International Handbook of Juvenile Justice. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09478-6_3
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