Doing Justice to Young People

Youth Crime and Social Justice

By: Roger Smith

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Paperback | 20 December 2010 | Edition Number 1

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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 behaviour is constructed as criminal and then addressed;
Part 3 considers the limitations of current practices and potential alternatives.

Within this broad framework, the differentiated and contested nature of young people's experiences and our (and their) ideas of 'youth' can be counterposed to prevailing one-sided and often discriminatory assumptions about them; in order then to open up questions about the nature and purposes of the youth justice system, and to introduce some possibilities for reconstructing it according to fundamental principles of rights, welfare and social justice.

Doing Justice to Young People will be essential reading for anybody working in or studying youth crime and youth justice.

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Introduction: a recurrent problem?	p. 1
The production of youth	p. 10
Working models: the idea of (normal) development	p. 10
So what is normal?	p. 11
Expectations and influences: the normative project	p. 15
'It's just a phase	p. 18
Difference and diversity: changing youth	p. 21
Explaining youth: development, discourse or rational choice?	p. 25
Youth: construction, production and reproducing	p. 28
The road to deviance: adaptation, drift or lifestyle choice?	p. 30
Choosing pathways?	p. 30
Making sense of their own lives: what is adolescence for?	p. 31
Situated normality: an established concept	p. 35
Adapting and criticising Merton: structure and action	p. 38
Drifting into crime: anomie in action?	p. 42
A changing world: contingency and choice?	p. 45
Towards a theoretical framework?	p. 48
Becoming criminal: what does the evidence tell us?	p. 50
The search for explanations	p. 50
The usual suspects: families and communities	p. 52
Offender characteristics: individualising explanations of crime	p. 56
Developmental and 'life-course' criminologies: squaring the circle?	p. 60
Groups and gangs: a developmental case study	p. 64
Accounting for youth crime: the need for a broader canvas	p. 68
Constructing crime and creating delinquents	p. 71
The problem of definition	p. 71
Discourse and crime	p. 72
The iron fist? Material realities of authority and control	p. 77
The materiality of power	p. 83
Ideology and practice in youth justice	p. 88
Recruiting young criminals: material practices	p. 91
'Pathways' and 'thresholds'	p. 91
Social exclusion: the authorised version	p. 92
Social exclusion and youth crime: a critical view	p. 98
Exclusionary processes: 'push' and 'pull' factors?	p. 103
Becoming young criminals: 'push' and 'pull'?	p. 108
Doing justice?	p. 111
The youth justice system: fit for purpose?	p. 111
So what's going on then?	p. 112
Taking the long view? 'Deep' accounts of youth justice	p. 118
Towards synthesis: the 'drivers' of youth justice policy and practice	p. 123
Going round in circles? The tension between fragmentation and unity	p. 129
Doing injustice	p. 130
Where are we now?	p. 130
Divide and rule?	p. 131
Division and discrimination	p. 137
Damage	p. 142
Doing injustice: an endemic problem	p. 147
The road to justice: liberal reform	p. 150
Making the case for change	p. 150
The reform(ist) agenda	p. 152
Reform: strategies and practice	p. 157
The limits of reform?	p. 162
Beyond compromise, beyond 'reform'	p. 168
The road to justice: radical alternatives	p. 170
The art of the possible?	p. 170
Prevention and inclusion	p. 171
At the threshold of the system: pursuing minimum intervention	p. 175
Community justice: keeping it local?	p. 179
Restorative practice: a progressive model?	p. 183
Signposts and maps: current practice and future possibilities	p. 187
Refraining justice for young people	p. 190
The problem of misalignment	p. 190
The lessons of experience: 'lost in translation'?	p. 191
The scale of the task: barriers to justice	p. 195
Justice and young people: a realistic goal?	p. 198
Visions and reality: a footnote	p. 202
References	p. 203
Index	p. 219
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