Youth Justice Handbook: Theory, Policy and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781843927167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str.

Wayne Taylor

Opis

What knowledge and skills do you need to practise effectively as a professional within the youth justice system? What values should inform your work with children and young people subject to criminal justice sanctions? These are the central questions addressed by the editors and contributors in this comprehensive new text.
The Youth Justice Handbook provides an essential resource for practitioners in youth justice as well as those who are studying the subject as part of their training or an academic course. Its aim is to equip practitioners in youth justice and the wider children s workforce with an understanding of key theoretical concepts from a range of disciplines that might inform and enhance their work. It encourages a critical interrogation of the ideas that underpin practice by drawing on social constructionist approaches to issues such as child development, crime and punishment and related concepts. It provides a descriptive account of current practice in
areas such as community corrections and incarceration, examining the evidence base for this and suggesting where appropriate alternative strategies.
The key objective of the Handbook is to provide students with the confidence to critically reflect on the ideas and debates that currently influence the work undertaken with young people as well as those that may shape practice in the future. By equipping them with the basic skills of analysis and an understanding of key themes and developments, it aims to further promote their progression as reflective practitioners and autonomous learners.
The Youth Justice Handbook takes a multidisciplinary approach, and contains chapters from leading experts in the field which draw on original research and practical experience of working in the area. It is divided into five parts:
Contexts of childhood and youth
Research, knowledge and evidence in youth justice
Policy, possibilities and penal realities in youth justice
Reflective practice
Widening contexts
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Spis treści

Introduction Part 1: Contexts of Childhood and Youth Introduction 1. Structural Disadvantage: Youth, Class, Crime and Poverty  2. Transitions to Adulthood  3. From Child to Adult: Theoretical Assumptions in Ideas about Growing Up  4. Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll: Young People as Consumers  5. Bullying as Abuse  Part 2: Research, Knowledge and Evidence in Youth Justice  Introduction  6. Research-informed Youth Justice?  7. Whose Account Counts? Politics and Research in Youth Justice  8. Globalisation, Power and Knowledge in Youth Justice  9. Preventing and Reducing Risk  10. What Can we Know, and How Can we Know it?   Part 3: Policy, Possibilities and Penal Realities in Youth Justice Introduction  11. Parenting and Youth Justice: Policy and Practice  12. Restorative Justice at the Heart of the Youth Community  13. Children and Young People in Custody  14. Living in a Box: Ethnicity and Identity Inside a Young Men's Prison  Part 4: Reflective Practice Introduction  15. Promoting Desistance Amongst Young People  16. Young People's 'Voices' as Evidence  17. Partnership: Putting Relationships to Work  18. Reflective Practice in Youth Justice  Part 5: Widening Contexts  Introduction  19.  The United Nations, Children's Rights and Juvenile Justice  20. Human Rights and Youth Justice in Europe  21. Values in Youth Justice: Practice Approaches to Welfare and Justice for Young People in UK Jurisdictions   22. The Dragonisation of Youth Justice  23. The Development of Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland, Conclusion