Youth Justice Ideas, Policy, Practice [Hardcover]

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 an important resource for youth justice practitioners and will also be essential to students taking courses in youth crime and youth justice.

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

A book that has stood the test of time. Roger Smith leads the reader through the complex history, theory and practice of youth justice with an experts eye and a teachers skill. First-rate and a must for all students studying this field.

Fully updated, comprehensive in its coverage, detailed and research-focused in its content and infused with the author's insightful explanations, this is, in many ways, a new book, which is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary youth justice.