Restorative Justice Interventions for Juvenile Offenders.
This paper is a rough outline about restorative justice interventions for juvenile offenders. The juvenile justice system is a complex web of people and agencies that processes about a quarter of a million youths annually at a cost exceeding $1 billion. To understand the system requires a baseline knowledge of the statistical trends during the past decade that have shaped the system's ability to function and the roles played by the various components of the system. Academic experts have long recognized that crime is a young man's game. The typical criminal is a male who begins his career at 14 or 15, continues through his mid-20s and then tapers off into retirement.
