Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice (Sage Library of Criminology) (1ST ed.)

Table of Contents:
VOLUME 1: THE ′YOUTH PROBLEM′
Part One: The Sociology of Childhood and Youth
Childhood in History - P. Thane
Constructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: An interpretative survey, 1800 to the present - H. Hendrick
The Origins of Adolescence - J. Springhall
Childhood Matters: An introduction - J. Qvortrup
The Sociological Child - A. James, C. Jenks, and A. Prout
Part Two: The Discovery of Delinquency
Report of Committee into Juvenile Delinquency (1816)
The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth Century England - S. Magarey
The Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England 1780-1840: Changing patterns of perception and prosecution - P. King
The Idea of Juvenile Crime in 19th Century England - H. Shore
Part Three: The Origins of Juvenile Justice
Innocence and Experience: The evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century - M. May
Criminal and Destitute Children (1853) - Select Committee Report
The Triumph of Benevolence: The origins of the juvenile justice system in the United States - A. Platt
Part Four: Representations and Realities
Representations of the Young - C. Griffin
Steal to survive: The social crime of working class children 1890-1940 - S. Humphries
Delinquency and the Age Structure of Society - D. Greenberg
Young People, Culture and the Construction of Crime: Doing wrong versus doing crime - M. Presdee
VOLUME 2: JUVENILE CORRECTIONS
Part Five: Welfare, Justice and Risk Management
Children in Trouble - Home Office (1968)
Wider, Stronger and Different Nets: The dialectics of criminal justice reform - J. Austin and B. Krisberg
Corporatism: The third model of juvenile justice - J. Pratt
Explaining and Preventing Crime: The globalisation of knowledge - D. Farrington
Predicting Criminality?: Risk factors, neighbourhood influence and desistance - C. Webster, R. MacDonald and M. Simpson
Restorative Justice for Juveniles: Just a technique or a fully fledged alternative? - L. Walgrave
Part Six: Punitiveness
Entitlement to Cruelty: The end of welfare and the punitive mentality in the United States - J. Simon
Deadly symbiosis: When ghetto and prison meet and mesh - L. Wacquant
Waiver and Juvenile Justice Reform: Widening the punitive net - A. Merlo, P. Benekos and W. Cook
Taking Liberties: Policy and the punitive turn - B. Goldson
Girls at Risk? Reflections on changing attitudes to young women′s offending - A. Worrall
Part Seven: International and Comparative Youth Justice
Trends in International Juvenile Justice: What conclusions can be drawn? - J. Junger-Tas
The Globalization of Crime Control - the Case of Youth and Juvenile Justice: Neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions - J. Muncie
Public Safety and the Management of Fear - R. Van Swaaningen
Law and order as a Leftist Project?: The case of Sweden - H. Tham
Conferencing in Australia and New Zealand: Variations, research findings and prospects - K. Daly
Italy: A lesson in tolerance? - D. Nelken
Youth Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Japan - M. Fenwick
VOLUME 3: CHILDREN′S RIGHTS AND STATE RESPONSIBILITIES
Part Eight: The International Human Rights Framework
Convention on the Rights of the Child - United Nations General Assembly (1989)
Resolution 60/231: Rights of the child - United Nations General Assembly (2006)
General Comment No. 10: Children′s rights in juvenile justice - United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2007)
Part Nine: Rights and Justice: Rhetoric and Reality
International Human Rights Law: Imperialist, inept and ineffective? Cultural relativism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - S. Harris-Short
Global Inequalities - H. Penn
Justice as a Two-Way Street - D. Cook
Juvenile Justice: The ′Unwanted Child′ Why the potential of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is not being realized, and what we can do about it - B. Abramson
Juvenile Justice Rhetoric - J. Miller
Part Ten: Abuses and Violations
Expanding Realms of the New Penology: The advent of actuarial justice for juveniles - K. Kempf-Leonard and E. Peterson
Challenging Girls′ Invisibility in Juvenile Court - M. Chesney-Lind
The New Removals: Aboriginal youth in the Queensland juvenile justice system - I. O′Connor
Shackled in the Land of Liberty: No rights for children - W. Mohr, R J. Gelles and I.M. Schwartz
Fatal Injustice: Rampant punitiveness, child-prisoner deaths and institutionalised denial - a case for comprehensive independent inquiry in England and Wales - B. Goldson
Part Eleven: Rethinking Juvenile Justice
The Way Forward - P.S. Pinheiro
Challenging the Criminalization of Children and Young People: Securing a rights-based agenda - P. Scraton and D. Haydon
Youth Justice? The impact of system contact on patterns of desistance from offending - L. McAra and S. McVie
Rethinking Youth Justice: Comparative analysis, international human rights and research evidence - B. Goldson and J. Muncie


Biographical Note:
Barry Goldson is best known for his work in the fields of youth justice studies and youth criminology and critical policy analysis. He is extensively published and he has presented papers at well over 100 conferences and academic meetings in the UK, Europe, Australia and the USA. He is the founding editor of ′Youth Justice: An International Journal′ (Sage) and he is a member of the Editorial Boards of the ′British Journal of Criminology′ (Oxford University Press), ′Critical Social Policy′ (Sage), the ′Howard Journal of Criminal Justice′ (Blackwells) and ′Studies in Social Justice′ (an interdisciplinary electronic journal sponsored and published by the Centre for Studies in Social Justice, University of Windsor, Ontario). Professor Goldson has served as an advisornsultant to several major research projects including the ESRC′s ′Pathways Into and Out of Crime′ programme. He has provided expert evidence to the United Nations Secretary General′s study on violence against children, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Children, the Commission on the Future of Multi-Ethnic Britain and an independent inquiry into youth justice policy in Scotland. Professor Goldson is a non-executive Director/Trustee of the Howard League for Penal Reform and he has long-standing relations with a range of other national and international non-governmental, human rights and progressive penal reform organisations.

John Muncie is a professor of criminology at the Open University. His main research involves establishing the parameters of a distinctive and comprehensive youth criminology capable of moving beyond narrow discipline boundaries by drawing on cultural studies, media studies, social history, the sociology of education, labour-market studies, the sociology of youth and social policy as well as criminological knowledge. In 2006 he published an edited volume on comparative youth justice with 17 international contributors. Related to this from 2002-06 he was the UK representative on an international working group funded by SSRC (USA) exploring the relations between Youth, Globalisation and the Law. He is the co-editor of the journal Youth Justice: An International Journal and a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology and The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

This three-volume set of original readings is designed to reveal how and why children and young people have been repeatedly the subject of adult concern, censure, and intervention. It conceptualizes notions of ′childhood′, ′youth′, and ′adolescence′ while also tracing the complex history of adult intervention and juvenile justice.

In the 21st century discourses of protection, restoration, punishment, responsibility, rehabilitation, welfare, retribution, diversion, human rights, and so on exist alongside each other in a perpetually uneasy and contradictory manner. Youth Crime and Juvenile Justice provides a lens through which to navigate this complex field.

• Volume I- The Youth Problem outlines social constructions of childhood and youth and how these are intimately related to the origins of systems of juvenile justice.
• Volume II - Juvenile Corrections explores the varied means of intervention and correction that currently make up the juvenile justice landscape in jurisdictions worldwide.
• Volume III - Children′s Rights and State Responsibilities examines the deprivations, injustices, abuses and lack of access to rights that routinely surround childhood and youth worldwide.

Each volume includes a substantive introduction from the editors. This collection comprehensively defines and maps out the fields of youth criminology and juvenile justice studies.

Contributor Bio:Muncie, John
John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children's rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007-2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.