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Book Synopsis`An excellent reader. It contains all the basic ingredients of a superb teaching book with the qualities of a thought-provoking text.... Should be required reading for all students of criminal justice policy and it will be a valuable teaching resource for all those involved in the delivery of courses on young people, justice and punishment' -
Punishment and Society`This is a valuable student text; carefully collated and with an abuntant array of material... and will surely become a widely used course reader. For the practitioner and general reader it is a book to dip into, a means to access debates and remind oneself of the ebb and flow of policy' - Youth Justice
Youth Justice brings together for the first time the most influential international contributors to the emergent field of youth justice studies.
Youth Justice provides:
·a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of
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`This is a valuable student text; carefully collated and with an abuntant array of material... and will surely become a widely used course reader. For the practitioner and general reader it is a book to dip into, a means to access debates and remind oneself of the ebb and flow of policy′ - Youth Justice
`An excellent reader. It contains all the basic ingredients of a superb teaching book with the qualities of a thought-provoking text.... Should be required reading for all students of criminal justice policy and it will be a valuable teaching resource for all those involved in the delivery of courses on young people, justice and punishment′ - Punishment and Society
Table of ContentsModes of Youth Governance - John Muncie and Gordon Hughes Political Rationalities, Criminalization and Resistance PART ONE: FOLK DEVILS: CONSTRUCTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF YOUTH AND CRIME Constructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood - Harry Hendrick An Interpretative Survey, 1800 to the Present Youth Crime and Moral Decline - Geoffrey Pearson Permissiveness and Tradition Lesser Breeds Without the Law - Paul Gilroy Rethinking Moral Panic for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds - Angela McRobbie and Sarah Thornton The Vilification and Pleasures of Youthful Transgression - Keith Hayward PART TWO: THE ORIGINS OF YOUTH JUSTICE Innocence and Experience - Margaret May The Evolution of the Concept of Juvenile Delinquency in the Mid-Nineteenth Century The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth-Century England - Susan Magarey The Three Rs - Repression, Rescue and Rehabilitation Ideologies of Control for Working-Class Youth - John Clarke The Government of a Generation - Peter Rush The Subject of Juvenile Delinquency Reforming the Juvenile - Heather Shore Gender, Justice and the Child Criminal in Nineteenth-Century England PART THREE: POSITIVISM AND WELFARISM The Triumph of Benevolence - Anthony Platt The Origins of the Juvenile Justice System in the United States Penal Strategies in a Welfare State - David Garland On the Decriminalization of English Juvenile Courts - Anthony Bottoms Children′s Hearings and Children in Trouble - Janice McGhee, Lorraine Waterhouse and Bill Whyte Restorative Youth Jusitce - Loraine Gelsthorpe and Allison Morris The Last Vestiges of Welfare? PART FOUR: JUSTICE, DIVERSION AND RIGHTS Wider, Stronger and Different Nets - James Austin and Barry Krisberg The Dialectics of Criminal Justice Reform Justice, Retribution and Children - Stewart Asquith Whose Justice? The Politics of Juvenile Control - John Clarke `Troublesome Girls′ - Annie Hudson Towards Alternative Definitions and Policies Challenging the Criminalization of Children and Young People - Phil Scraton and Deena Haydon Securing a Rights-based Agenda PART FIVE: DETENTION AND RETRIBUTION Failure Never Matters - John Muncie Detention Centres and the Politics of Deterrence The Boot Camp and the Limits of Modern Penality - Jonathan Simon The Reductionist Agenda - Andrew Rutherford The Future of Imprisonment - Thomas Mathiesen New Punitiveness - Barry Goldson The Politics of Child Incarceration PART SIX: RISK MANAGMENT AND PREVENTION Corporatism - John Pratt The Third Model of Juvenile Justice The End of an Era - John Pitts Understanding and Preventing Youth Crime - David Farrington Expanding Realms of the New Penology - Kimberley Kempf-Leonard and Elicka Peterson The Advent of Actuarial Justice for Juveniles The Contemporary Politics of Youth Crime Prevention - Tim Newburn
