Youth, Crime and Justice.

Youth, Crime and Justice.

Youth, Crime and Justice takes a critical issues approach to analyzing the current debates and issues in juvenile delinquency. It encourages readers to adopt an analytical understanding encompassing not only juvenile crime, but also the broader context within which the conditions of juvenile crimina...

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Main Author: Banks, Cyndi
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Subjects:
Juvenile delinquency.
Juvenile justice, Administration of.
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile justice, Administration of
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Youth, Crime and Justice; Copyright; Contents; chapter 1 Introduction; Constructing juvenile delinquency; Child savers; Parens patriae; Education; Juvenile court; Organization of the book; Recap; References; chapter 2 Theories Associated with Juvenile Delinquency; Strain; Loss of positive stimuli/presentation of negative stimuli; Strain and class; Criticisms of strain; Social learning; Control; Labeling; Criminology and gender; Recap; References; chapter 3 Juvenile Institutions; History and development of juvenile corrections; Contemporary juvenile corrections.
  • "Waiting for the outs": experiencing juvenile correctionsDiscipline and control; Recap; Notes; References; chapter 4 Gender and Juvenile Justice; Controlling girls: gender and history; Girls' violence: definitions and explanations; Programming inadequaces in the treatment of girl offenders; Recap; Note; References; chapter 5 Race and Juvenile Justice; African Americans: the urban underclass; Bias and the operation of the juvenile justice system; American Indians and Alaskan Natives; Comparative racial disparities; Recap; Notes; References; chapter 6 Youth Culture and Delinquency.
  • Deviance and youthYouth subcultures; The interaction between youth cultures and deviance; Cultural criminology; Acid house parties and the rave subculture; Writing graffiti; Skateboarding; Recap; Notes; References; chapter 7 Youth and Moral Panic; Moral panic theory; Adolescence; School shootings; James Bulger; Mods and Rockers; Mugging in Britain; Juvenile superpredators; Girl violence and girl gangs; Gang violence; Recap; Notes; References; chapter 8 Restorative Justice for Young Offenders; Explaining restorative justice; Restorative justice and community justice.
  • Authentic restorative justice?Restorative justice: theoretical foundations; Restorative justice programs; International norm formation; Critiques of restorative justice; Restorative justice and the public; Recap; Note; References; chapter 9 What Works?; Delinquency prevention: what works?; Rehabilitation and treatment: what works?; Effective interventions: examples; Ineffective interventions: control-oriented programs; Understanding culture: culturally specific programming; Juvenile drug courts; Restorative justice (RJ); Recap; Notes; References; chapter 10 Transnational Youth Justice.
  • Specificity of delinquency in BangladeshPolicy convergences and policy transfer of youth justice policies; Sites of tension; Child soldiers; Girl soldiers; Questioning childhood; Why use child soldiers?; Recruitment and training; Agents or passive victims?; Child soldiers in combat; Restoring the child soldier; Recap; Notes; References; Index.

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