Youth Justice Critical Readings [Paperback]

Youth Justice: Critical Readings brings together for the first time the most influential international contributors to the emergent field of youth justice studies. This will be an essential sourcebook for students and teachers in the fields of criminology, youth studies, criminal justice, social work and social policy as well as for practitioners and managers in this increasingly important field of professional practice. 

This book provides a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice and is an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences.

`This is a valuable student text; carefully collated and with an abuntant array of material... and will surely become a widely used course reader. For the practitioner and general reader it is a book to dip into, a means to access debates and remind oneself of the ebb and flow of policy' - Youth Justice

`An excellent reader. It contains all the basic ingredients of a superb teaching book with the qualities of a thought-provoking text.... Should be required reading for all students of criminal justice policy and it will be a valuable teaching resource for all those involved in the delivery of courses on young people, justice and punishment' - Punishment and SocietyModes of Youth Governance - John Muncie and Gordon Hughes
Political Rationalities, Criminalization and Resistance
PART ONE: FOLK DEVILS: CONSTRUCTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF YOUTH AND CRIME
Constructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood - Harry Hendrick
An Interpretative Survey, 1800 to the Present
Youth Crime and Moral Decline - Geoffrey Pearson
Permissiveness and Traditl#.