Youth Justice Handbook

This book provides an essential resource for both practitioners in youth justice as well as those who are studying the subject as part of their training or an academic course.

Introduction Part 1: Contexts of Childhood and Youth Introduction 1. Structural Disadvantage: Youth, Class, Crime and Poverty 2. Transitions to Adulthood 3. From Child to Adult: Theoretical Assumptions in Ideas about Growing Up 4. Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll: Young People as Consumers 5. Bullying as Abuse Part 2: Research, Knowledge and Evidence in Youth Justice Introduction 6. Research-informed Youth Justice? 7. Whose Account Counts? Politics and Research in Youth Justice 8. Globalisation, Power and Knowledge in Youth Justice 9. Preventing and Reducing Risk 10. What Can we Know, and How Can we Know it? Part 3: Policy, Possibilities and Penal Realities in Youth Justice Introduction 11. Parenting and Youth Justice: Policy and Practice 12. Restorative Justice at the Heart of the Youth Community 13. Children and Young People in Custody 14. Living in a Box: Ethnicity and Identity Inside a Young Men's Prison Part 4: Reflective Practice Introduction 15. Promoting Desistance Amongst Young People 16. Young People's 'Voices' as Evidence 17. Partnership: Putting Relationships to Work 18. Reflective Practice in Youth Justice Part 5: Widening Contexts Introduction 19. The United Nations, Children's Rights and Juvenile Justice 20. Human Rights and Youth Justice in Europe 21. Values in Youth Justice: Practice Approaches to Welfare and Justice for Young People in UK Jurisdictions 22. The Dragonisation of Youth Justice 23. The Development of Restorative Justice in Northern Ireland, Conclusion