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The new politics of youth crime : discipline or solidarity? / John Pitts ; consultant editor Jo Campling.
Van Pelt Library HV9145.A5 P56 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pitts, John, 1943-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenile delinquency--Great Britain.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- Great Britain.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--Great Britain.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of.
- Juvenile delinquency--France--Prevention.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 218 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
- Summary:
- "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 that threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analyzing 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 problems of youth crime in Europe.
- Contents:
- 1 The Disciplinary Tradition 1
- The political utility of 'youth crime' 1
- The spectre of indiscipline 2
- From 'dark hearts' to the 'heart of darkness': the politicisation of youth crime 5
- Balancing the books 6
- The depoliticisation of youth crime 6
- Community corrections 7
- A marriage of convenience 8
- A culture of cynicism 10
- The crime rate steepens 10
- Repoliticisation 11
- 2 Things Can Only Get Better 13
- A Major crisis 13
- Labour joins the fray 14
- The pre-pubescent superpredators from purgatory 15
- The gates slam shut 17
- Prison works - but not for the Tories 17
- Jack Straw's stratagem 19
- The final straw 20
- God bless America 22
- Don't stop thinking about tomorrow 23
- On not tolerating broken windows 25
- Naming and shaming 26
- Over there 27
- Left realism 28
- Welfare mothers, barbaric sons 30
- The rise of the neo-suburban intelligentsia 30
- Misspent energies 33
- A third way 35
- Kicking 'ass' in Worcester 35
- 3 Hard Labour 37
- No more excuses 37
- Alacrity 38
- The systemic parent 40
- The Italian job 40
- Prefabrication 41
- Misspent Youth 42
- Who done it? How often? 43
- The administration of discipline 46
- The erosion of the juvenile jurisdiction 47
- Doli incapax 48
- Pre-emptive intervention 50
- Prevention 53
- Custody 54
- The invasion of the body snatchers 57
- The ghost of systems past 60
- We have been here before 62
- The new 'new penology' 63
- 4 The Confrontation with Consequences 65
- Restorative justice 66
- The origins of 'restorative justice' 66
- The idea of restorative justice 68
- Does restorative justice 'work'? 70
- The limitations of restorative justice 71
- 5 The Development of Discernment 77
- Cognition and sensibility 77
- Delinquent development 78
- Science and politics 98
- 6 After the Goldrush 101
- The crime rate steepens 101
- The redistribution of wealth 102
- The redistribution of crime and victimisation 103
- Neighbourhood destabilisation 103
- Structural youth unemployment 106
- Youth crime and the labour market 109
- Destabilising schools 118
- Explaining neighbourhood destabilisation 124
- Collective efficacy 126
- 7 The Erosion of Solidarity 131
- Crime, change and social cohesion 131
- The advent of market society 133
- Lyotard and emotional: retreatist social theory and the problematisation of 'progress' 134
- The managerial turn 136
- Managing youth justice 138
- New Labour - new managerialism 141
- Crime and social exclusion 146
- Towards a joined-up morality 152
- Citizenship 153
- 8 A Tale of Two Housing Estates 160
- Fog in the Channel 160
- Methodology 164
- The Dickens estate 167
- Economic decline and social change 169
- The Flaubert estate 170
- The social prevention initiative 171
- Decentralisation and deconcentration 173
- A tale of two housing estates 175
- The practice of prevention 180
- 'Youth justice' 184
- Employment 186
- Housing policy 187
- The violent victimisation of children and young people 188
- The struggle for the school 189
- Action in the school 191
- Multi-agency partnership 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-212) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333692012
- OCLC:
- 44425554
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