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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821665203321

Autore

Brown Sheila <1959->

Titolo

Understanding youth and crime : listening to youth? / / Sheila Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Maidenhead, England ; ; New York, NY, : Open University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-95089-7

0-335-22440-7

Edizione

[Second edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Collana

Crime and justice

Disciplina

364.36/0941

Soggetti

Juvenile delinquency - Great Britain

Problem youth - Great Britain

Deviant behavior - Great Britain

Juvenile justice, Administration of - Great Britain

Criminology - Great Britain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-238) and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Constructing the other : childhood and youth -- 2. Problem youth meets criminology : the formative decadees -- 3. Representing problem youth : the repackaging of reality -- 4. In whose interests? Politics, policy and UK youth justice -- 5. 'Punishing youth' : victims or villians? -- 6. Youth and crime : beyond the boy zone -- 7. Netdangers : cyberkids and cybercrimes -- 8. Beyond boundaries : understanding global youth and crime -- 9. Conclusion : listening to youth?.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is an accessible introduction to the subject of youth and crime. The author explores the social construction of childhood and youth, and looks at the role of the media in creating a strong association of young people with crime and disorder, which sustains processes of marginalization and exclusion and leads to frequent `panics¿ about youth crime. The importance of media representations of race and gender in these processes are also explored.