Cautionary Tales: Young People, Crime and Policing in Edinburgh / Edition 1

by Simon Anderson, Richard Kinsey, Connie Smith

Overview

Juvenile crime makes headlines. It is the stock-in-trade of politicians and pundits. But young people are also the victims of crime. They too have demands to make of the police. Drawing upon survey and interview research with 11 to 15 year-olds in Edinburgh, this book examines how crime impacts upon young people’s everyday lives. It reveals that young people experience far more serious problems as victims and witnesses of crime, than they cause as offenders. It shows that they report little of their experiences of crime to the police, and are left to find their own ways of managing risk, such as telling cautionary tales about dangerous people and places. The study concludes by examining young people's relations with the police, suggesting they are over-controlled as suspects and under-protected as victims.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781856288514
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/01/1994
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.62(h) x (d)

About the Author

Simon Anderson, Richard Kinsey, Connie Smith

Table of Contents

Contents: Young people and the city; The victimisation of young people; Living with crime; Breaking the law, learning the rules; Young people and the police.

Editorial Reviews

’...an important and pioneering study in several different senses.’ L’Officier de Police ’This is a marvellous path-breaking study, which puts children as victims in a much clearer context than other work...’ British Journal of Criminology

From the Publisher

Augmented from a 1990 report to the Lothian Regional Council, discusses young people and the city, the victimization of young people, living with crime, breaking the law and learning the rules, and relations between young people and the Edinburgh police. The interviews with 250 people aged 11 to 15 in a housing project surprisingly showed a much higher degree of victimization than experienced by adults; a disturbingly high percent of the youths had also witnessed crime. No index. Distributed in the US by Ashgate. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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