208 Pages
by
Routledge
Doing Youth Justice is a theoretically informed, empirical analysis of the ways in which information about the risks and needs of young people is used to create knowledge about 'young offenders', which in turn provides the rationale for particular interventions and constitutes specific young penal subjectivities. One of its main themes is 'risk thinking' in youth justice practice, its... Read more
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Biography
Jo Phoenix is Professor of Criminology at the University of Leicester, UK. She has written several articles and chapters on youth justice and is author of Making Sense of Prostitution, Illicit and Illegal: Sex Regulation and Social Control and editor of Regulating Sex for Sale.
