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Youth and Crime
The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice. Extensively updated to reflect changes in the youth justice system and contemporary debates around youth crime, this fifth edition of Youth and Crime
Includes new chapters on developmental and life course theories, and punitive justice strategies.
Has been significantly expanded with new sections on the politicisation of youth crime, knife crime and gangs, child refugees, climate justice, child-on-child homicide, and localised criminal exploitation.
Features increased coverage of policing strategies, including sections on policing public space and rethinking youth justice.
Complete with a new two colour design, chapter outlines, summary boxes, study questions, further reading lists, useful website lists, and a glossary, this textbook expertly guides students through their studies in youth and crime.
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Youth and Crime
The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice. Extensively updated to reflect changes in the youth justice system and contemporary debates around youth crime, this fifth edition of Youth and Crime
Includes new chapters on developmental and life course theories, and punitive justice strategies.
Has been significantly expanded with new sections on the politicisation of youth crime, knife crime and gangs, child refugees, climate justice, child-on-child homicide, and localised criminal exploitation.
Features increased coverage of policing strategies, including sections on policing public space and rethinking youth justice.
Complete with a new two colour design, chapter outlines, summary boxes, study questions, further reading lists, useful website lists, and a glossary, this textbook expertly guides students through their studies in youth and crime.
The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice. Extensively updated to reflect changes in the youth justice system and contemporary debates around youth crime, this fifth edition of Youth and Crime
Includes new chapters on developmental and life course theories, and punitive justice strategies.
Has been significantly expanded with new sections on the politicisation of youth crime, knife crime and gangs, child refugees, climate justice, child-on-child homicide, and localised criminal exploitation.
Features increased coverage of policing strategies, including sections on policing public space and rethinking youth justice.
Complete with a new two colour design, chapter outlines, summary boxes, study questions, further reading lists, useful website lists, and a glossary, this textbook expertly guides students through their studies in youth and crime.
John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children's rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007-2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.
Table of Contents
Youth CrimeRepresentations, Discourses and DataHistories of Youth and CrimeExplaining Youth Crime IPositivist CriminologiesExplaining Youth Crime IIRadical and Realist CriminologiesYouth VictimologyYouth Cultures, Cultural Studies and Cultural CriminologyYouth and Social PolicyControl, Regulation and GovernanceYouth Justice Strategies IWelfare and JusticeYouth Justice Strategies IIPrevention and PunishmentComparative and International Youth Justice