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Youth Justice: Critical Readings
John Muncie
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Description for Youth Justice: Critical Readings
Paperback. This book provides a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice and is an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences. Editor(s): Muncie, John; Hughes, Gordon; McLaughlin, Eugene. Series: Published in Association with the Open University. Num Pages: 476 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBKW; JFSP1; JFSP2; JKVQ2; LN. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 241 x 170 x 28. Weight in Grams: 844.
`An excellent reader. It contains all the basic ingredients of a superb teaching book with the qualities of a thought-provoking text.... Should be required reading for all students of criminal justice policy and it will be a valuable teaching resource for all those involved in the delivery of courses on young people, justice and punishment′ - Punishment and Society `This is a valuable student text; carefully collated and with an abuntant array of material... and will surely become a widely used course reader. For the practitioner and general reader it is a book to dip into, a means to ... Read moreaccess debates and remind oneself of the ebb and flow of policy′ - Youth Justice
Youth Justice brings together for the first time the most influential international contributors to the emergent field of youth justice studies.
Youth Justice provides:
· a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice.
· an essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences
· editorial essays at the beginning of each substantive section of the
volume
· specially commissioned chapters at the end of each section, which place the readings in their theoretical and historical context.
The Reader is the set text for The Open University course, Youth Justice, Penality and Social Control (D864).
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Product Details
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United Kingdom
Series
Published in Association with The Open University
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
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About John Muncie
John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts ... Read moreand readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal. Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology. Show Less
Reviews for Youth Justice: Critical Readings
`This is a valuable student text; carefully collated and with an abuntant array of material... and will surely become a widely used course reader. For the practitioner and general reader it is a book to dip into, a means to access debates and remind oneself of the ebb and flow of policy′ - Youth Justice `An excellent ... Read morereader. It contains all the basic ingredients of a superb teaching book with the qualities of a thought-provoking text.... Should be required reading for all students of criminal justice policy and it will be a valuable teaching resource for all those involved in the delivery of courses on young people, justice and punishment′ - Punishment and Society Show Less
