Youth Justice

`An excellent reader. It contains all the basic ingredients of a superb teaching book with the qualities of a thought-provoking text.... Should be required reading for all students of criminal justice policy and it will be a valuable teaching resource for all those involved in the delivery of courses on young people, justice and punishment' - <b><i>Punishment and Society</p><p></i></p><p></b>`This is a valuable student text; carefully collated and with an abuntant array of material... and will surely become a widely used course reader. For the practitioner and general reader it is a book to dip into, a means to access debates and remind oneself of the ebb and flow of policy' - <b><i>Youth Justice</p><p></i></p><p>Youth Justice</b> brings together for the first time the most influential international contributors to the emergent field of youth justice studies. </p><p></p><p><b>Youth Justice</b> provides:</p><p></p><p><b>·</b>a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice. </p><p></p><p><b>·</b>an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences </p><p></p><p><b>·</b>editorial essays at the beginning of each substantive section of the</p><p>volume </p><p></p><p><b>·</b>specially commissioned chapters at the end of each section, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context.</p><p></p><p>The Reader is the set text for The Open University course, <i>Youth Justice, Penality and Social Control </i>(D864).