Youth Justice: Critical Readings

Description:
'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 the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice.* an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences * editorial essays at the beginning of each substantive section of the volume * specially commissioned chapters at the end of each section, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context. The Reader is the set text for The Open University course, Youth Justice, Penality and Social Control (D864).

Review:
'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 Contents:
Modes 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