The New Politics of Youth Crime

Discipline or Solidarity?

By: John Pitts

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Hardcover | 2 June 2001 | Edition Number 1

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"The New Politics of Youth Crime" argues that the centrality of "law and order" to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy which threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analyzing the profound changes in UK youth crime in the 1980s, this book posits the French Social Prevention Initiative of the 1980s as an alternative model for a genuinely "joined up", social democratic response to the increasingly complex problem of youth crime in Europe.

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List of Tables and Figure	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
The Disciplinary Tradition	p. 1
The political utility of 'youth crime'	p. 1
The spectre of indiscipline	p. 2
From 'dark hearts' to the 'heart of darkness': the politicisation of youth crime	p. 5
Balancing the books	p. 6
The depoliticisation of youth crime	p. 6
Community corrections	p. 7
A marriage of convenience	p. 8
A culture of cynicism	p. 10
The crime rate steepens	p. 10
Repoliticisation	p. 11
Things Can Only Get Better	p. 13
A Major crisis	p. 13
Labour joins the fray	p. 14
The pre-pubescent superpredators from purgatory	p. 15
The gates slam shut	p. 17
Prison works - but not for the Tories	p. 17
Jack Straw's stratagem	p. 19
The final straw	p. 20
God bless America	p. 22
Don't stop thinking about tomorrow	p. 23
On not tolerating broken windows	p. 25
Naming and shaming	p. 26
Over there	p. 27
Left realism	p. 28
Welfare mothers, barbaric sons	p. 30
The rise of the neo-suburban intelligentsia	p. 30
Misspent energies	p. 33
A third way	p. 35
Kicking 'ass' in Worcester	p. 35
Hard Labour	p. 37
No more excuses	p. 37
Alacrity	p. 38
The systemic parent	p. 40
The Italian job	p. 40
Prefabrication	p. 41
Misspent Youth	p. 42
Who done it? How often?	p. 43
The administration of discipline	p. 46
The erosion of the juvenile jurisdiction	p. 47
Doli incapax	p. 48
Pre-emptive intervention	p. 50
Prevention	p. 53
Custody	p. 54
The invasion of the body snatchers	p. 57
The ghost of systems past	p. 60
We have been here before	p. 62
The new 'new penology'	p. 63
The Confrontation with Consequences	p. 65
Restorative justice	p. 66
The origins of 'restorative justice'	p. 66
The idea of restorative justice	p. 68
Does restorative justice 'work'?	p. 70
The limitations of restorative justice	p. 71
The Development of Discernment	p. 77
Cognition and sensibility	p. 77
Delinquent development	p. 78
Science and politics	p. 98
After the Goldrush	p. 101
The crime rate steepens	p. 101
The redistribution of wealth	p. 102
The redistribution of crime and victimisation	p. 103
Neighbourhood destabilisation	p. 103
Structural youth unemployment	p. 106
Youth crime and the labour market	p. 109
Destabilising schools	p. 118
Explaining neighbourhood destabilisation	p. 124
Collective efficacy	p. 126
The Erosion of Solidarity	p. 131
Crime, change and social cohesion	p. 131
The advent of market society	p. 133
Lyotard and emotional: retreatist social theory and the problematisation of 'progress'	p. 134
The managerial turn	p. 136
Managing youth justice	p. 138
New Labour - new managerialism	p. 141
Crime and social exclusion	p. 146
Towards a joined-up morality	p. 152
Citizenship	p. 153
A Tale of Two Housing Estates	p. 160
Fog in the Channel	p. 160
Methodology	p. 164
The Dickens estate	p. 167
Economic decline and social change	p. 169
The Flaubert estate	p. 170
The social prevention initiative	p. 171
Decentralisation and deconcentration	p. 173
A tale of two housing estates	p. 175
The practice of prevention	p. 180
'Youth justice'	p. 184
Employment	p. 186
Housing policy	p. 187
The violent victimisation of children and young people	p. 188
The struggle for the school	p. 189
Action in the school	p. 191
Multi-agency partnership	p. 191
Conclusion	p. 193
Bibliography	p. 201
Index	p. 213
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