Doing Justice to Young People - Youth Crime and Social Justice

Informationen zum Autor Roger Smith is Professor of Social Work at De Montfort University. He has worked in the youth justice since the early 1980s, as a practitioner, policy maker and researcher. He has published widely and authoritatively in this field. Klappentext There is an apparent impasse in current thinking about youth crime and justice which is represented by punitive and harmful practices on one hand, and critical objections to these processes on the other. This book, whilst clearly located within the critical perspective, attempts to move beyond this blockage, and to arrive at an alternative strategy for resolving the tensions between young people, especially those on and beyond the margins, and the social world which frames their lives. Zusammenfassung Provides a critical basis for rethinking the relationship between young people (problematic or not) and the wider society of which they necessarily form an integral and engaged part. This book concludes by formulating an alternative model of what constitutes 'effective' policy and practice when concerns arise about their 'problem' behaviour. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Young People and Crime 1. The Production of Youth 2. Adaptation and Resistance 3. Criminality, Culture and Choices Part 2: Crime and 'Justice' 4. Defining Crime and Delinquency 5. Lives and Crimes 6. Doing 'Justice'? Part 3: Towards Social Justice 7. Getting it Wrong Again 8. Reform and its Limits 9. Alternative Principles and Practices 10. Young People and Social Justice: Cutting out Crime

Product details

• Authors: Roger Smith, Roger (De Montfort University Smith
• Publisher: Willan Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2010
• EAN: 9781843928409
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-840-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Social issues & processes, Social and ethical issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Criminal justice law, Juvenile Criminal Law