Diversion in Youth Justice - What Can We Learn From Historical and Contemporary Practices?

List of contents

Introduction, 1. Theorising Youth Diversion, 2. The Origins and Emergence of Diversion, 3. Diversion: Development and Doubt, 4. Diversion Renewed, 5. Diversion, Dangerousness and the ‘Risky Child’, 6. Another ‘U’ Turn? Diversion and Community Justice, 7. Modelling Diversion, 8. Diversion and Youth Justice: Meanings and Possibilities, References

About the author

Roger Smith is Professor of Social Work at Durham University, UK. As a practitioner, and in a senior policy role, he specialised in youth justice, and he has pursued this area of interest in his academic research and writing (including the well-known book Youth Justice: Ideas, Policy, Practice). He has also been involved in research and publications on a wider range of subjects, including childhood (A Universal Child), social work and power (Social Work and Power), participatory methods and social work education, and he retains a continuing interest in researching and promoting children’s rights in practice (Social Work with Young People).

Summary

This book examines the emergence and development of youth diversion within the justice system, discusses its models of practice and offers some theoretical conclusions about its relationship with sociological and criminological trends.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Smith
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.10.2017
• EAN: 9781138697287
• ISBN: 978-1-138-69728-7
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Health & personal development, Social Work, Social issues & processes, Legal aspects of criminology, Social and ethical issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Health, Relationships and Personal development, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects, Juvenile Criminal Law