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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.
List of contents
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. What's 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
About the author
Esmorie Miller's research historicizes the role of race, racism, and racialization in contemporary youth justice (YJ). Where race in contemporary youth justice is concerned, specifically with the amplification of punishment, her research explores realities beyond crime and punishment; it explores punitive outcomes apparent in contemporary YJ, for racialized youth, as continuities of the historic exclusion of racialized peoples from the benefits of modern, universal rights. Retributive justice has, thus far, decoupled racialized youth's contemporary concerns from this relevant history. A contemporary example of this is the institutional policies and practices around urban youth gangs, in England and Canada. Her research observes that, in both these contexts, race remains invisible in historic narratives on early modern youth penal reform, and thereby in the statutory approaches to gangs. Yet, race is an important part of these histories. Esmorie Miller is a lecturer in Criminology at London South Bank University.
Summary
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.
