Transforming Youth Justice - Occupational Identity and Cultural Change

Informationen zum Autor Anna Souhami is Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, Edinburgh University. Zusammenfassung Inter-agency Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) were the cornerstone of New Labour's approach to the delivery of youth justice services. Transforming Youth Justice makes a highly significant contribution not only to the way that professional cultures are understood in criminal justice, but to an understanding of the often dissonant relationship between policy and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Transforming youth justice 2. Occupational cultures and criminal justice Part 1: The Youth Justice Team 3. Experiences and problems of team membership 4. Working in youth justice: social work and ambiguity 5. An unrepresentative representative: being a police officer on a YOT Part 2: Ambiguity and change 6. Joining the team: problems of identity and membership 7. Experiencing change: identity, resistance and fragmentation 8. Managing ambiguity and change: power and creativity Part 3: A Youth Offending Team 9. Culture and identity in the new youth justice 10. Understanding culture and change Appendix Researching a Youth Offending Team

Product details

• Authors: Anna Souhami, Anna (Lse) Souhami, Anna (University of Edinburgh Souhami, Souhami Anna
• Publisher: Willan Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9781843921936
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-193-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; England, Wales, LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Juvenile offenders, Criminal justice law