Youth Justice : Critical Readings

by John Muncie

• ISBN13: 9780761949138
• ISBN10: 0761949135
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-24
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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 boot 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)
Corporatism: 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