Introduction 1.Defining youth offending: The social construction of ‘youth offending’ 2.Explaining youth offending: Individual, socio-structural and systemic causes 3.Explaining youth offending: Risk factor theories 4.Responding to youth offending: The social construction of youth justice 5.Responding to youth offending: New Labour and the ‘new youth justice’ 6.Responding to youth offending: A newer ‘new youth justice’ Conclusion
Biography
Stephen Case is a professor of criminology and Director of Studies in the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK. He has conducted large-scale funded research projects for the Nuffield Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, the Youth Justice Board, the National Institute for Social Care and Health Research, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Welsh Government.
Steve Case’s "Youth Justice - A Critical Introduction" provides an essential introduction to youth justice in England and Wales, indeed I’d say is the essential introductory text, and as such fills a gap last occupied when Donald West first published his seminal ‘The Young Offender’ in 1967. Stimulating, balanced, but with a committed and challenging edge to it, no student, youth justice practitioner, or policy maker should allow themselves to be far away from a copy.
Professor John Drew, Professor at University of Bedfordshire and Former Chief Executive of the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (2009-2013).
