1st Edition
‘The Trouble with Kids Today’ Youth and Crime in Post-War Britain
By John Muncie
Copyright 1984
218 Pages
by
Routledge
Youth crime was constantly in the news during the early 1980s, fuelling widespread fears and anxieties about a spiraling crime wave. Throughout the preceding decade, youth crime was widely believed to have reached crisis proportions, with outbreaks of youth disorder prompting demands for urgent remedies and solutions—reflected in the establishment of short sharp shock detention centres, curfew... Read more
1. Media images of youth 2. Studies in the history and theory of youth 3. Youth and crime 4. Youth in revolt 5. The practice of youth control 1: regulation and restraint 6. The practice of youth control 2: correction and confinement Conclusion: youth in the 1980s
Biography
John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology, Department of Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University, UK. His research interests include critical criminology, comparative youth justice, children’s rights, globalisation, crime, harm and social policy. He was a founding member and Director of The Open University’s International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) from 2003 to 2011.
