Youth offending ‘in context’: Challenges and solutions 1. The problem of decontextualised youth offending 2. The problem of decontextualised youth justice 3. Explaining youth offending ‘in context’ 4. Responding to youth offending 'in context' 5. Reimagining youth offending and youth justice ‘in context’ 6. Appendix 1: Explaining youth offending by girls (adapted from Case 2021) Appendix 2: Explaining youth offending by boys (adapted from Case 2021) Appendix 3: Contextualised youth justice intervention through Realist Synthesis
Biography
Stephen Case is Professor of Youth Justice at Loughborough University. His research and scholarship has focused on the promotion of positive, ‘children first’, rights-based and anti-risk management approaches to working with children in conflict with the law. He has published numerous books including Youth Justice: A Critical Introduction (Case 2021 – Routledge), Positive Youth Justice: Children First, Offenders Second (Haines and Case 2015) and Understanding Youth Offending: Risk Factor Research, Policy and Practice (Case and Haines 2009 – Routledge).






