Crime Victims and Justice

Question: Discuss about theCrime Victims and Justice. Answer: The aim is to determine the effectiveness of the Youth Justice Group Conferencing (YJGC) in providing effective diversions for the young people from the intense supervision of the courts outcome, reducing the seriousness and the frequency of again offending young people to provide victim satisfaction in relation to criminal justice process. In this assignment there is discussion on the strengths and weaknesses of the youth group conferencing. Advantages and the Disadvantages of Youth Group Conferencing Youth Group Conferencing is a police play an active role. There is a very brief span delay between offence and the conference (Johnstone 2013). No criminal charges are applicable at the diversion of the conference. At the same time there are certain cons with the diversion of the conference, the police are usually not well trained to indentify things in relation to imparting in formations to the offender or their family. The arrangements made are very limited to protect the offender and his rights. Another main disadvantage is that the person being arrested may also agree for the conference even though there in sufficient evidence (Zehr 2015). Another advantage that can be pointed out is the reduction in the net-widening as conferencing resulted in conviction. There were various improved mechanisms brought forward for the protection of the rights of the offender. Conferencing would aim to address the problems of the offender than provide the redress for the offence. On the other hand Van and Strong (2014) disadvantages lied in the amount of preparatory work that had to be done before the conferencing. Major delays were made in making arrangements for the conference which resulted in longer duration of time that arose between the offence and the disposition. Youth Group Conferencing has the following advantages, only few of the sexual assault cases are dealt within the criminal justice system. Youth Group Conferencing does not help those who do not report such issues. Some people do not report such issue due the impact it makes on their family. The rate of prosecutions is relatively less also the rate of convictions is usually less for the young offenders (Zehr 2015). Conferencing under this observes the need for retributions. Most of the time the criminal justice system fails to meets the needs of the victims. Conclusion Youth Group Conferencing has aimed at reducing the number of problems in Australia. Although, the solution to every problem is not mentioned in the Youth Group Conferencing. The Group Conferencing process is made to direct the issues that contribute to make the young offenders behaviour better and analyse the Juvenile Justice data to examine the outcome. The police and the court are purely responsible for the Conferencing process. Reference List: Johnstone, G. (2013).Restorative justice: Ideas, values, debates. Routledge. Van Ness, D. W., Strong, K. H. (2014).Restoring justice: An introduction to restorative justice. Routledge. Zehr, H., 2015.Changing lenses: restorative justice for our times. Zehr, H., 2015.The little book of restorative justice: Revised and updated. Skyhorse Publishing, Inc..