Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice: The Intractability Malleability Thesis

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and England. The book links racial disparities in youth justice, especially exclusion from ideologies of care and notions of future citizenship, with historical practices of exclusion.

Despite the logic of care found in both rehabilitative and retributive forms of youth just...