Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice: The Intractability Malleability Thesis [Paperback]

Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice provides a socio-historical investigation of the legacy of racial discrimination which informs contemporary youth justice practice in Canada and UK. The book links racial disparities in youth justice, exclusion from ideologies of care and notions of future citizenship.

Introduction: race, recognition and retribution in contemporary youth justice, in England and Canada

1. The intractability/malleability (I/M) thesis: On the historic construction of Black, racialized youth as intractably deviant outsiders

2. Youth justice (YJ) through a historical lens: on the invention of the intractable deviant Black, racialized youth

3. Whats it all about Jose? the invention of Black, racialized youth as intractably deviant outsiders, in the English context

4.  Educating Glovanna: legislating intractability and the seeds of Black, racialized youth outsider status, in the historic Canadian education framework

5. Taking stock of contemporary youth justice: the alchemy of race and rights in the epoch of punishment

6. Intractability, disproportionate incarceration, and the self-fulfilling risk policy framework: the case of the racialized youth gang

7. The wider punitive effect of racialization: the informal (retributive) gaze in contemporary youth justice

8. Conclusion: the I/M logic and moving beyond crime and punsihment

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