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Youth Justice Project
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The Chief Constable instructed that all the Youth Justice processes used by Tayside Police should be reviewed and changed with objectives to reduce the number of referrals to SCRA, improve the quality of referrals to SCRA and reduce crime. This is to be acheived incorporating the principles of Restorative Justice and helping to meet the demands of the Anti-Social Behaviour agenda. All Tayside Police activity should contribute to achieving Force Objectives. It is clear that the objective where Youth Justice plays the largest role is in Crime Reduction. The function of Tayside Police is to reduce crime - not cure delinquency and sometimes this has not always been clear. The National Intelligence Model demands that Tayside Police should target resources where they will contribute most to achieving Force Objectives. As far as youth crime and Anti-Social Behaviour is concerned this is against the high tariff offenders. At the heart of the new processes is Risk Assessment. Throughout the process those involved must ask themselves "How likely is it that this young person will offend again?" When the risk of re-offending is not high the person carrying out the assessment, at whatever stage must prevent the young person progressing further into the system. The risk referred to in this process is not the risk of harm to the young person but the risk to the quality of life in the community and the risk to Tayside Police Objectives. Research and detailed analysis of the Youth Justice processes currently employed within Tayside Police determined that the aims of any successful new approach to Youth Justice would be
Youth Justice - Annual Summary Report to March 2006 Click here to download a copy of the Youth Justice Annual Summary Report for the year ending March 2006 as a PDF (1MB) Angus LMART - Local Multi Agency Resource Teams Angus LMART operates a range of support services to young people across the seven towns of Angus and smaller rural communities. LMART is provided by the Angus Youth Justice Strategy which is an agreement between various partner agencies about how they intend to address and challenge youth offending and antisocial behaviour.  WATCH
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