Full Description
Identifying and exploring the challenges in understanding and responding to youth crime, this book investigates the different contexts which contribute to youth offending as well as those which either help or hinder effective youth justice responses to it.
Supporting readers to evaluate traditional understandings and responses to youth offending, this critical, evidence-based text engages with a variety of international case studies, practice examples and expert perspectives from academic researchers in the field.
Delving into theoretical, conceptual, empirical, policy and practice issues, Youth Offending in Context will be of great value to students of youth justice, youth offending, youth crime, crime prevention, and criminal justice.
Contents
Youth offending 'in context': Challenges and solutions 1. The problem of decontextualised youth offending 2. The problem of decontextualised youth justice 3. Explaining youth offending 'in context' 4. Responding to youth offending 'in context' 5. Reimagining youth offending and youth justice 'in context' 6. Appendix 1: Explaining youth offending by girls (adapted from Case 2021) Appendix 2: Explaining youth offending by boys (adapted from Case 2021) Appendix 3: Contextualised youth justice intervention through Realist Synthesis
