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Transforming time: a new tool for youth justice. |
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Youth Justice, 10(2), August 2010, pp.143-156. |
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1473-2254 |
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1747-6283 |
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This article introduces the idea of time banks and argues for its relevance to youth justice workers. Time banking allows the exchange of goods and services in communities where money is in short supply but where skills, talents and time are plentiful. Voluntary actions carried out by community members generate a practical reward, time credits. Once earned, time credits can be used to access goods and purchase services. This article outlines the purpose and functions of time banks before considering 3 practical ways in which they can be put to use in contemporary youth justice practice in England and Wales. The first deals with early and preventative work; the second concentrates on young people who find themselves before the Courts; the last discusses a project which links people in custody to time bank activity. The article argues that time banks offer a new possibility for local action by youth justice workers which both improves the immediate circumstances of users and alters the nature of services themselves. |
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anti-social behaviour; communities; community work; crime prevention; prisoners; volunteers; young offenders; young people; youth justice; |
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www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk/profile.asp?guid=9e0e211b-a614-4bef-8b7d-87a0de705753 |
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