Youth Offending in Context: Challenges and Solutions

by Stephen Case

Overview

Identifying and exploring the challenges in understanding and responding to youth crime, this book investigates the different contexts which contribute to youth offending as well as those which either help or hinder effective youth justice responses to it.

Supporting readers to evaluate traditional understandings and responses to youth offending, this critical, evidence-based text engages with a variety of international case studies, practice examples and expert perspectives from academic researchers in the field. 

Delving into theoretical, conceptual, empirical, policy and practice issues, Youth Offending in Context will be of great value to students of youth justice, youth offending, youth crime, crime prevention, and criminal justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032806792
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/08/2025
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Stephen Case is Professor of Youth Justice at Loughborough University. His research and scholarship has focused on the promotion of positive, ‘children first’, rights-based and anti-risk management approaches to working with children in conflict with the law. He has published numerous books including Youth Justice: A Critical Introduction (Case 2021 – Routledge), Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second (Haines and Case 2015) and Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Research, Policy and Practice (Case and Haines 2009 – Routledge).

Table of Contents

Youth offending ‘in context’: Challenges and solutions 1. The problem of decontextualised youth offending 2. The problem of decontextualised youth justice 3. Explaining youth offending ‘in context’ 4. Responding to youth offending 'in context' 5. Reimagining youth offending and youth justice ‘in context’ 6.  Appendix 1: Explaining youth offending by girls (adapted from Case 2021)  Appendix 2: Explaining youth offending by boys (adapted from Case 2021)  Appendix 3: Contextualised youth justice intervention through Realist Synthesis