ABSTRACT

The exciting new edition of this well-loved textbook offers a fully expanded and revised account and analysis of the youth justice system in the UK, taking into account and fully addressing the significant changes that have taken place since the second edition in 2007.

The book maintains its critical analysis of the underlying assumptions and ideas behind youth justice, as well as its policy and practice, laying bare the inadequacies, inconsistencies and injustices of practice in the UK. This edition will offer an important update in light of intervening changes, as reflected in a change of government and shifting patterns of interventions and outcomes.

This book will be an important resource for youth justice practitioners and will also be essential to students taking courses in youth crime and youth justice.

chapter |25 pages

Contrasts and continuities

Youth justice in the 1980s/1990s

chapter |22 pages

The New Labour experiment

chapter |15 pages

Coming full circle?

chapter |11 pages

Where are we now?

chapter |24 pages

Inside the machine

chapter |19 pages

Making it happen

chapter |28 pages

Theorising youth justice

chapter |22 pages

The consumer view

chapter |31 pages

Making sense of it all

The future of youth justice