TY - JOUR
T1 - Janus-faced youth justice work and the transformation of accountability
AU - Armitage, V.
AU - Kelly, L.
AU - Phoenix, J.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - This article revisits claims about the relationship between ‘standardisation’, ‘discretion’ and ‘accountability’ in youth justice made in the wake of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. We argue that less centralisation and less standardisation have transformed accountability, but this is experienced differently according to the place held in the organisational hierarchy. This recognition demands a more nuanced understanding of ‘practitioner discretion’, which can account for differences between managerial and frontline experiences of what we describe as ‘janus-faced youth justice work’, and a broad definition of the youth justice field and associated actors.
AB - This article revisits claims about the relationship between ‘standardisation’, ‘discretion’ and ‘accountability’ in youth justice made in the wake of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. We argue that less centralisation and less standardisation have transformed accountability, but this is experienced differently according to the place held in the organisational hierarchy. This recognition demands a more nuanced understanding of ‘practitioner discretion’, which can account for differences between managerial and frontline experiences of what we describe as ‘janus-faced youth justice work’, and a broad definition of the youth justice field and associated actors.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85029042486&partnerID=MN8TOARS
U2 - 10.1111/hojo.12181
DO - 10.1111/hojo.12181
M3 - Article
VL - 55
SP - 478
EP - 495
JO - Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
JF - Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
IS - 4
ER -