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The New Politics of Youth Crime. Discipline or Solidarity?.
John Pitts
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Hardback. Analyzing the profound changes in UK youth crime in the 1980s, this text posits the French Social Prevention Initiative of the 1980s as an alternative model for a genuinely "joined up", social democratic response to the increasingly complex problem of youth crime in Europe. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; JFSP2; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 425.
The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of 'law and order' to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy which threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analysing the profound changes in UK youth crime in the 1980s, this book posits the French Social Prevention Initiative of the 1980s as an alternative model for a genuinely 'joined-up', social democratic response to the increasingly complex problem of youth crime in Europe.
The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of 'law and order' to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy which threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analysing the profound changes in UK youth crime in the 1980s, this book posits the French Social Prevention Initiative of the 1980s as an alternative model for a genuinely 'joined-up', social democratic response to the increasingly complex problem of youth crime in Europe.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
218
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333692011
SKU
V9780333692011
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99-15
About John Pitts
JOHN PITTS is Vauxhall Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Luton. His publications include The Politics of Juvenile Crime (1988), Working with Young Offenders (1999), Developing Services for Young People in Crisis (1991), Preventing School Bullying (1995) and Positive Residential Practice: Learning the Lessons of the 1990s. John Pitts is chair of the board of Social Work in ... Read more
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