Youth Justice: Ideas, Policy, Practice

ISBN-13: 9780415626514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 252 str.

Roger Smith

Opis

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 a resource for youth justice practitioners and essential to students taking courses in youth crime and youth justice.

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Contrasts and Continuities: Youth Justice in the 1980s/1990s  2. The New Labour Experiment  3. Coming full circle?  4. Where are we now?  5. Inside the Machine  6. Making it Happen  7. Theorizing Youth Justice  8. Measures of success and failure in youth justice  9. The Consumer View 10. Making sense of it all: the future of youth justice

O autorze

Roger Smith is Professor of Social Work at the University of Durham. As a practitioner, Roger worked as a Probation Officer, specialising in diversion with young offenders. He then spent some years as Head of Policy with The Children’s Society, arguing the case for children’s rights in youth justice. He has also taught at the University of Leicester, and at De Montfort University he was Professor of Social Work Research. Roger is also the author of Doing Justice to Young People: Youth Crime and Social Justice (Willan/Routledge 2011).