Youth Justice: Critical Readings(Published in Association with The Open University)

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 Contained are editorial essays at the beginning of each substantive section of the volume Youth Justice is the set text for D864 'Youth justice, penality and social control' at the Open University

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

About the Author :
John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), 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. Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

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