Youth Crime and Justice

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Barry Goldson, John Muncie
SAGE, 2006 - Social Science - 239 pages
Youth Crime and Justice provides an authoritative and accessible overview of youth crime and youth policy developments in the UK. It engages readers with key debates, examining youth crime and justice in context, and providing a critical assessment of contemporary evaluative research. The editors have produced an analysis of the processes of criminalization and contemporary patterns of youth crime, and seek to develop a formulation of youth justice for the future. Barry Goldson and John Muncie have brought together a leading team of experts to produce the definitive text in the area. This book, along with its companion volume Contemporary Youth Justice (edited by John Muncie and Barry Goldson) , will significantly advance the development of an emerging youth criminology.
 

Contents

Histories of Youth Crime and Justice
3
Social Class Youth Crime and Justice
17
Race Youth Crime and Justice
30
Gender Youth Crime and Justice
47
Statistical Evidence
65
Research Evaluation and Evidence
78
Actuarialism and Early Intervention in Contemporary
92
Restorative Approaches Young People and Youth Justice
110
Context and Relationships Matter
125
Intolerance Irrationality and Indifference
139
Community Safety Youth and the AntiSocial
157
Urban Regeneration Young People Crime
172
The New Deal for
187
Towards a Principled Youth Justice
203
Index
233
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About the author (2006)

John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (4th edition, Sage, 2014), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.

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