Policing Youth: Britain, 1945–70
Louise Jackson
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Description for Policing Youth: Britain, 1945–70
Hardback. Evaluates the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 black & white tables, 2 maps, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; HBTB; JKSW1; JKVQ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
Policing youth probes beneath the media sensationalism surrounding youth crime in order to evaluate the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change. The work of state representatives – the police, magistrates and probation officers – is mapped alongside discipline within families, neighbourhoods, schools and churches as well as the growing commercial sector of retail and leisure. Youth culture is considered alongside the social and moral regulation of everyday life.
The book offers an important comparison of England and Scotland, uses a wide variety of sources (including ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719081781
SKU
V9780719081781
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Louise Jackson
Louise A. Jackson is Reader in Modern Social History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh Angela Bartie is Lecturer in History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde -- .
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