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Record Nr.

UNINA9911088972603321

Titolo

The criminalisation of youth : juvenile justice in Europe, Turkey and Canada / / Francis Bailleau, Yves Cartuyvels (eds.)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Brussels, : VUBPress, 2010

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Collana

Criminologische studies

Altri autori (Persone)

BailleauFrancis

CartuyvelsYves

Soggetti

Juvenile justice, Administration of - Europe

Juvenile justice, Administration of - Turkey

Juvenile justice, Administration of - Canada

Juvenile delinquency - Europe

Juvenile delinquency - Turkey

Juvenile delinquency - Canada

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""The criminalisation of youth and current trends: the sentencing game""; ""Juvenile justice in Belgium seen through the sanctions looking-glass""; ""The criminalisation of youth: developments in Canada""; ""The criminalisation of juveniles andcountervailing trends: youth justice in England and Wales""; ""Scottish youth justice: convergent pressures and cultural singularities""; ""�The punitive turn� � are there any points of resistance? An answer from the Portuguese experience""

""The game of sanctions in the Spanish juvenile justice system: The tension between primary and secondary criminalisation""""France: breaking with the European line ofjuvenile justice?: The successive reforms of the ordinance of 2 February 1945""; ""Romanian juvenile justice system betweenwelfare values and neo-liberal inflexions""; ""Slovenia""; ""Understanding juvenile penal justice in Turkey: An attitude both punitive and lax, expressing a will forsolidarity""; ""Youth criminal justice in Europe: At the intersection of protective thinking, A neo-liberal turn,and neo-conservative ideology""



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Sommario/riassunto

Transformations to the criminal justice system in Western societies are often linked with broader social and cultural changes, and this work presents the recent changes in juvenile justice in Canada and nine European countries and the sociopolitical context in which they take place. The study provides a comparison of the sentencing practices of each country, focusing on three dimensions related to the sanction practices: the custodial sanctions, the alternative sanctions, and the extension of the judicial thinking into relative fields such as school, training, and social policies. With clear and thoroughly developed research methods, this analysis illustrates that changes in juvenile justice policies are not specifically the result of differences in crime rates or the evolution of deviant youth behavior, but rather the effect of complex interactions with a variety of social, economical, cultural, and political factors.