Understanding youth and crime : listening to youth? / Sheila Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Sheila, 1959-

Series:

Crime and justice (Buckingham, England)

Crime and justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency--Great Britain.

Juvenile delinquency.

At-risk youth--Great Britain.

At-risk youth.

Deviant behavior--Great Britain.

Deviant behavior.

Juvenile justice, Administration of--Great Britain.

Juvenile justice, Administration of.

Criminology--Great Britain.

Criminology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Maidenhead, England ; New York, NY : Open University Press, 2005.

Summary:

This book is an accessible introduction to the subject of youth and crime. The author explores the social construction of childhood and youth, and looks at the role of the media in creating a strong association of young people with crime and disorder, which sustains processes of marginalization and exclusion and leads to frequent `panics¿ about youth crime. The importance of media representations of race and gender in these processes are also explored.

Contents:

1. Constructing the other : childhood and youth

2. Problem youth meets criminology : the formative decadees

3. Representing problem youth : the repackaging of reality

4. In whose interests? Politics, policy and UK youth justice

5. 'Punishing youth' : victims or villians?

6. Youth and crime : beyond the boy zone

7. Netdangers : cyberkids and cybercrimes

8. Beyond boundaries : understanding global youth and crime

9. Conclusion : listening to youth?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [224]-238) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-95089-7

0-335-22440-7

OCLC:

476040596