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This book investigates the systemic determinants of youth custodial sentencing in England and Wales, offers an account of the patterns of youth imprisonment and a nuanced explanation of systemic features at different times and in different places.
List of contents
1. Introduction, 2. The rationale for, and consequences of, locking children up, 3. The context for understanding patterns of custody: risk and exclusion, 4. An emerging culture of control?, 5. A history of confounded expectations: youth custody from 1970 to the present, 6. Patterns of incarceration - the rise and fall of youth imprisonment: 1969 - 199, 7. Patterns of incarceration - the rise in youth imprisonment: 1992 -2005, 8. New Labour: reform and legacy, 9. 'Justice by geography': towards an understanding of local systemic factors, 10. Practitioner culture and custody, 11. Back to the future? The decline in child imprisonment in the late 2000s, 12. Conclusion
About the author
Tim Bateman is a Reader in Youth Justice at the University of Bedfordshire.
Summary
This book investigates the systemic determinants of youth custodial sentencing in England and Wales, offers an account of the patterns of youth imprisonment and a nuanced explanation of systemic features at different times and in different places.
Additional text
Tim Bateman’s Incarcerating Children: Understanding Youth Imprisonment combines historical, theoretical, empirical and national and local policy and practice analysis to offer a complex, nuanced and broad ranging account of children incarceration in England and Wales since 1970. It is a welcome addition to the genre and an appealing and accessible text for researchers, academics, youth justice professionals and students alike.
Dr. Janet Jamieson, Head of Criminology, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
