Doing justice to young people : youth crime and social justice / / Roger Smith

• Autore: Smith Roger S (Roger Shipley), <1953-, >
• Pubblicazione: Abingdon [U.K.] ; ; New York : , : Willan Pub., , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (235 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.36; 364.360941
• Soggetto topico: Juvenile justice, Administration of - Great Britain; Social justice - Great Britain
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-217) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Doing Justice to Young People; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: a recurrent problem?; 1. The production of youth; Working models: the idea of (normal) development; So what is normal?; Expectations and influences: the normative project; 'It's just a phase ...'; Difference and diversity: changing youth; Explaining youth: development, discourse or rational choice?; Youth: construction, production and reproducing; 2. The road to deviance: adaptation, drift or lifestyle choice?; Choosing pathways?; Making sense of their own lives: what is adolescence for? ; Situated normality: an established conceptAdapting and criticising Merton: structure and action; Drifting into crime: anomie in action?; A changing world: contingency and choice?; Towards a theoretical framework?; 3. Becoming criminal: what does the evidence tell us?; The search for explanations; The usual suspects: families and communities; Offender characteristics: individualising explanations of crime; Developmental and 'life-course' criminologies: squaring the circle?; Groups and gangs: a developmental case study; Accounting for youth crime: the need for a broader canvas ; 4. Constructing crime and creating delinquentsThe problem of definition; Discourse and crime; The iron fist? Material realities of authority and control; The materiality of power; Ideology and practice in youth justice; 5. Recruiting young criminals: material practices; 'Pathways' and 'thresholds'; Social exclusion: the authorised version; Social exclusion and youth crime: a critical view; Exclusionary processes: 'push' and 'pull' factors?; Becoming young criminals: 'push' and 'pull'?; 6. Doing justice?; The youth justice system: fit for purpose?; So what's going on then? ; Taking the long view? 'Deep' accounts of youth justiceTowards synthesis: the 'drivers' of youth justice policy and practice; Going round in circles? The tension between fragmentation and unity; 7. Doing injustice; Where are we now?; Divide and rule?; Division and discrimination; Damage; Doing injustice: an endemic problem; 8. The road to justice: liberal reform; Making the case for change; The reform(ist) agenda; Reform: strategies and practice; The limits of reform?; Beyond compromise, beyond 'reform'; 9. The road to justice: radical alternatives; The art of the possible? ; Prevention and inclusionAt the threshold of the system: pursuing minimum intervention; Community justice: keeping it local?; Restorative practice: a progressive model?; Signposts and maps: current practice and future possibilities; 10. Reframing justice for young people; The problem of misalignment; The lessons of experience: 'lost in translation'?; The scale of the task: barriers to justice; Justice and young people: a realistic goal?; Visions and reality: a footnote; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: There is an impasse in current thinking about youth crime and justice, represented by punitive and harmful practices, and liberal objections to these processes on the other, based predominantly on arguments for 'rehabilitation'. This book aims to arrive at an alternative strategy for resolving the tensions between young people - especially those on and beyond the margins - and the social world which frames their lives.The book is split into three sections:Part 1 focuses on young people, their attitudes and behaviour;Part 2 considers the way in which their be
• Titolo autorizzato: Doing justice to young people
• ISBN: 1-283-54688-4; 9786613859334; 1-136-68104-3; 0-203-81029-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465424003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II