Youth Justice : Critical Readings

Youth Justice: Critical Readings brings together for the first time the most influential international contributors to the emergent field of youth justice studies. This will be an essential sourcebook for students and teachers in the fields of criminology, youth studies, criminal justice, social work and social policy as well as for practitioners and managers in this increasingly important field of professional practice.

Acknowledgements

ix

Preface

xi

Modes of youth governance: political rationalities, criminalization and resistance

1

(18)

John Muncie

Gordon Hughes

Part I Folk devils: constructions and reconstructions of youth and crime

19

(76)

Constructions and reconstructions of British childhood: an interpretative survey, 1800 to the present

22

(23)

Harry Hendrick

Youth crime and moral decline: permissiveness and tradition

45

(5)

Geoffrey Pearson

Lesser breeds without the law

50

(18)

Paul Gilroy

Rethinking moral panic for multi-mediated social worlds

68

(12)

Angela McRobbie

Sarah Thornton

The vilification and pleasures of youthful transgression

80

(15)

Keith Hayward

Part II The origins of youth justice

95

(78)

Innocence and experience: the evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century

98

(17)

Margaret May

The invention of juvenile delinquency in early nineteenth-century England

115

(8)

Susan Magarey

The three Rs - repression, rescue and rehabilitation ideologies of control for working-class youth

123

(15)

John Clarke

The government of a generation: the subject of juvenile delinquency

138

(21)

Peter Rush

Reforming the juvenile: gender, justice and the child criminal in nineteenth-century England

159

(14)

Heather Shore

Part III Positivism and welfarism

173

(82)

The triumph of benevolence: the origins of the juvenile justice system in the United States

177

(20)

Anthony Platt

Penal strategies in a welfare state

197

(19)

David Garland

On the decriminalisation of English juvenile courts

216

(12)

Anthony Bottoms

Children's hearings and children in trouble

228

(10)

Janice McGhee

Lorraine Waterhouse

Bill Whyte

Restorative youth justice: the last vestiges of welfare?

238

(17)

Loraine Gelsthorpe

Allison Morris

Part IV Justice, diversion and rights

255

(74)

Wider, stronger and different nets: the dialectics of criminal justice reform

258

(17)

James Austin

Barry Krisberg

Justice, retribution and children

275

(9)

Stewart Asquith

Whose justice? The politics of juvenile control

284

(12)

John Clarke

`Troublesome girls': towards alternative definitions and policies

296

(15)

Annie Hudson

Challenging the criminalization of children and young people: securing a rights-based agenda

311

(18)

Phil Scraton

Deena Haydon

Part V Detention and retribution

329

(72)

Failure never matters: detention centres and the politics of deterrence

332

(13)

John Muncie

The booth camp and the limits of modern penality

345

(14)

Jonathan Simon

The reductionist agenda

359

(14)

Andrew Rutherford

The future of imprisonment

373

(13)

Thomas Mathiesen

New punitiveness: the politics of child incarceration

386

(15)

Barry Goldson

Part VI Risk management and prevention

401

(63)

Corporation: the third model of juvenile justice

404

(9)

John Pratt

The end of an era

413

(12)

John Pitts

Understanding and preventing youth crime

425

(6)

David Farrington

Expanding realms of the new penology: the advent of actuarial justice for juveniles

431

(21)

Kimberly Kempf-Leonard

Elicka Peterson

The contemporary politics of youth crime prevention

452

(12)

Tim Newburn

Index

464

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