Youth Crime and Justice

by Barry Goldson (Editor), John Muncie (Editor)

Overview

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 Comparative Youth Justice (edited by John Muncie and Barry Goldson) , will significantly advance the development of an emerging youth criminology.

The book is essential reading for criminology and criminal justice students, researchers, and practitioners.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781446210826
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/14/2015
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x (d)

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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL-STRUCTURAL CONTEXTS
Chapter 1: Histories of Youth Crime and Youth Justice - Harry Hendrick
Chapter 2: Social Class, Youth Crime and Youth Justice - Rob White and Chris Cunneen
Chapter 3: ‘Race’, Youth Crime and Youth Justice - Colin Webster
Chapter 4: Girls, Crime and Justice - Gilly Sharpe and Loraine Gelsthorpe
PART TWO: TRENDS, EVIDENCE, POLICY AND PRACTICE
Chapter 5: Trends in Detected Youth Crime and Contemporary State Responses - Tim Bateman
Chapter 6: What Evidence for Youth Justice? - David Smith
Chapter 7: Risk Management and Early Intervention: A Critical Analysis - Stephen Case and Kevin Haines
Chapter 8: The Case for Diversion and Minimum Necessary Intervention - Lesley Mc Ara and Susan Mc Vie
Chapter 9: Restorative Justice? A Critical Analysis - Chris Cunneen and Barry Goldson
Chapter 10: Desistance from Crime in the Transition to Adulthood - Shadd Maruna, Brendan Coyle and Brendan Marsh
Chapter 11: The Circular Motions of Penal Politics and the Pervasive Irrationalities of Child Imprisonment - Barry Goldson
Chapter 12: Community Safety and the Policing of Young People in Austere Times - Adam Edwards, Gordon Hughes and Rachel Swann
Chapter 13: Youth Transitions, Criminal Careers and Social Exclusion - Rob Mac Donald
PART THREE: FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Chapter 14: Children’s Human Rights and Youth Justice with Integrity - Barry Goldson and John Muncie

Editorial Reviews

With its critical perspective and systematic approach towards a hugely complex issue, the second edition of Youth Crime and Justice fulfils all the expectations and needs of those teaching, studying or researching this domain. It is beyond compare, which made the waiting more than worthwhile.

Prof. Dr. Jenneke Christiaens

An indispensable collection, bringing together some of the most thoughtful scholars in the field of youth justice today. Youth Crime and Justice stands out because it is both solidly grounded in the best traditions of research, and keenly attuned to contemporary (and sometimes unexpected) developments in youth justice 'on the ground'.

Prof. Elliott Currie

Youth Crime and Justice is the most comprehensive and up-to-date collection on the market today. A must for all researchers, teachers and students of youth justice.

Professor Tim Newburn

London School of Economics and president of the BSC

Youth Crime and Justice presents a detailed and comprehensive critical analysis of evidence from leading national and international scholars. As such it provides a powerful antidote to the excesses of contemporary correctionalism.

Professor Andrew Rutherford

University of Southampton

Goldson and Muncie draw all the mulitplicity of competing and contradictory aspects and critiques together to promote principles for yourh crime and justice.

Nic Groombridge, School of Communications, St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill

From the Publisher

Informed by the latest research in the field, the contributing authors of Youth Crime & Justice help explain the profoundly important yet uneven changes in youth justice policy and human rights that have emerged in the UK and internationally over the last decade, along with the huge challenges these pose for current efforts at progressive national and international youth justice reform.

Prof. Russell Smandych