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Close encounters of the utilitarian kind: mediated reparation for young offenders
Author(s) -
WATSON DAVID
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.1988.tb00325.x
Subject(s) - welfare , economic justice , rehabilitation , criminology , juvenile delinquency , psychology , juvenile , political science , sociology , law , neuroscience , biology , genetics
SUMMARY. The proposal that reparation be added to the range of disposals available in our systems of juvenile justice has generally been resisted. In looking at both English and Scottish systems, it is stressed that decision‐makers are legally required to give priority to the welfare of the child. However, where reparation warrants rehabilitation that requirement is satisfied. Rehabilitation is more likely to be achieved when young offenders are diverted to programmes which support the development of appropriate attitudes to rights in property or person. Mediated encounters between victims and offenders may be programmes of the right type