It is equally important to examine the responsibilities of social service workers and how they can address some oppressive and unjust factors that influence the lives of young offenders. When we look at child welfare and youth justice systems, we get the impression that they take unrelated approaches to addressing the needs of young people. This view is to some extent strengthened by how each system has different aims and objectives when engaging with these groups and by its targeted interventions. As we know, social workers will always adopt a welfare-oriented approach, which will seek to interact with vulnerable groups and individuals who come to the attention of the welfare system. On the other hand, the juvenile justice system will focus on interventions with offenders that seek to rehabilitate and reduce crime, but neither is as clear and cut as it might seem. The separation of focus is pushed back further structurally, with responsibility for the juvenile justice system placed under the control of the Ministry of Justice while the local authority's social services department is responsible for the welfare system. Despite this very clear division of responsibilities and the way in which services are focused, it is also true that victims and offenders are seen at opposite ends of the criminality spectrum; with one end being the recipient of a criminal act and the other end the perpetrator of the same