Under the Scaled Approach - which is due to come into force alongside the YRO at the end of this year - the level of intervention will be based on an assessment of risk and need, as well as the severity of the offences committed.
The concerns and criticisms to which I alluded in those talks have surfaced rather sooner than I had anticipated (CYP Now, 28 May-3 June). The basis of my own assertion was the evolving debate in the 1970s around so-called "justice for juveniles" following the introduction of more welfare-oriented measures for young offenders. These sought to reflect the contention, made forcefully in political debate and legislation at the end of the 1960s, that the depraved were also deprived - that a background of social disadvantage was a significant factor behind youth offending behaviour. This was, of course, the precursor to the now famous mantra of being tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.
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