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Youth and Crime

5th Edition


March 2021 | 576 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice.

Extensively updated to reflect changes in the youth justice system and contemporary debates around youth crime, this fifth edition of Youth and Crime:

  • Includes new chapters on developmental and life course theories, and punitive justice strategies.
  • Has been significantly expanded with new sections on the politicisation of youth crime, knife crime and gangs, child refugees, climate justice, child-on-child homicide, and localised criminal exploitation.
  • Features increased coverage of policing strategies, including sections on policing public space and rethinking youth justice.

Complete with a new two colour design, chapter outlines, summary boxes, study questions, further reading lists, useful website lists, and a glossary, this textbook expertly guides students through their studies in youth and crime.

 
Chapter 1: Images of Youth and Crime
 
Chapter 2: Histories of Youth and Crime
 
Chapter 3: Explaining Youth Crime I: Positivist Criminologies
 
Chapter 4: Explaining Youth Crime II: Developmental and Life Course Theories
 
Chapter 5: Explaining Youth Crime III: Radical and Realist Criminologies
 
Chapter 6: Youth Victimology
 
Chapter 7: Youth Cultures, Cultural Studies and Cultural Criminology
 
Chapter 8: Youth and Social Policy: Control, Regulation and Governance
 
Chapter 9: Youth Justice Strategies I: Welfare and Justice
 
Chapter 10: Youth Justice Strategies II: Policing, Prevention and Risk Management
 
Chapter 11: Youth Justice Strategies III: Custody, Punishment and Rights
 
Chapter 12: Comparative and International Youth Justice

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