Contents

Introduction

Part 1: Contexts of Childhood and Youth
Introduction
1 Structural disadvantage: youth, class, crime and poverty, Joe Yates (Liverpool John Moores University)
2 Transitions to adulthood, Rachel Thomson (The Open University)
3 From child to adult – theoretical assumptions in ideas about growing up, Lindsay O’Dell (The Open University)
4 Sex 'n' drugs 'n' rock 'n' roll: young people as consumers, Mary Jane Kehily (The Open University)
5 Bullying as abuse, Carrie-Anne Myers (City University, London)

Part 2: Research, Knowledge and Evidence in Youth Justice
Introduction
6 Research-informed youth justice? Barry Goldson (University of Liverpool)
7 Whose account counts? Politics and research in youth justice, Jo Phoenix (University of Durham)
8 Globalisation, power and knowledge in youth justice, Richard Hester (The Open University)
9 Preventing and reducing risk, Stephen Case (Swansea University)
10 What can we know, and how can we know it? Wendy Stainton Rogers (The Open University)

Part 3: Policy, Possibilities and Penal Realities in Youth Justice
Introduction
11 Parenting and youth justice: policy and practice, Amanda Holt (University of Portsmouth)
12 Restorative justice at the heart of the youth community, Helen Mahaffey (Psychotherapist and independent consultant in restorative justice)
13 Children and young people in custody, Rod Morgan (University of Bristol)
14 Living in a box – ethnicity and identity inside a young men's prison, Rod Earle (The Open University)

Part 4: Reflective Practice
Introduction
15 Promoting desistance amongst young people, Monica Barry (University of Strathclyde)
16 Young people's 'voices' as evidence, Jean Hine (De Montfort University)
17 Partnership: putting relationships to work, Mo Barratt (The Open University)
18 Reflective practice in youth justice, Wayne Taylor (The Open University)

Part 5: Widening Contexts
Introduction
19 The United Nations, children's rights and juvenile justice, John Muncie (The Open University)
20 Human rights and youth justice in Europe, Rob Canton (De Montfort University)
21 Values in youth justice: practice approaches to welfare and justice for
young people in UK jurisdictions, Bill Whyte (University of Edinburgh)
22 The dragonisation of youth justice, Kevin Haines (Swansea University)
23 The development of restorative justice in Northern Ireland, Kelvin Doherty (Assistant Director Youth Justice Agency, Northern Ireland)
Conclusion
References
Index