Residential Children''s Homes and the Youth Justice System - Identity, Power and Perceptions

Informationen zum Autor Julie Shaw is a Research Fellow in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and has previously worked as a Probation Officer. She is co-author of Young People and the Care Experience: Research, Policy and Practice. Klappentext This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice. Perspectives are drawn from both young people and professionals in the care and youth justice systems. Zusammenfassung This book explores the factors at the individual! institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system! and the consequent implications for policy and practice. Perspectives are drawn from both young people and professionals in the care and youth justice systems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Developments and Experiences in Residential Care 2. Policy Context of Research 3. Introducing the Research Study: Theory and Method 4. Disempowerment, Responsibility and Difference 5. Solidarity, Conflict and the Residential Regime 6. Instability, Homogeneity and Isolation 7. 'Policing', Power and Perceptions 8. Key Findings and Implications for Policy and Practice

Sommario

Introduction 1. Developments and Experiences in Residential Care 2. Policy Context of Research 3. Introducing the Research Study: Theory and Method 4. Disempowerment, Responsibility and Difference 5. Solidarity, Conflict and the Residential Regime 6. Instability, Homogeneity and Isolation 7. 'Policing', Power and Perceptions 8. Key Findings and Implications for Policy and Practice

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: J. Shaw, Julie Shaw
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 23.05.2014
• EAN: 9781137319609
• ISBN: 978-1-137-31960-9
• Pagine: 200
• Categorie: Saggistica > Psicologia, esoterismo, spiritualità, antroposofia > Psicologia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; B, Criminology, Social Policy, adolescence, Social Work, childhood, Social welfare & social services, Social Service, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Crime & criminology, Central / national / federal government policies, Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Social Care, Youth Offending and Juvenile Justice, Juvenile delinquents, Juvenile offenders