Research handbook on youth criminology / edited by Greg Martin (Professor of Criminology and Estrella Pearce, Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney Australia).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martin, Greg, editor.

Pearce, Estrella, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminology--Research.

Criminology.

Juvenile delinquency--Research.

Juvenile delinquency.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (356 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025.

Summary:

"This timely Handbook provides historical, contemporary, theoretical and methodological perspectives on youth criminology. It explores cutting-edge research on juvenile justice and youth governance and proposes directions for future research. Bringing together a diverse range of international experts, the Handbook emphasises the hybrid nature of youth justice governance, highlighting ongoing debates over prioritising human rights, welfare, justice, or risk management. The chapters explore trends in youth criminology drawing on empirical data from a variety of geographical and institutional contexts of juvenile justice. Key topics include the care and criminalisation of institutionalised children, moral panic theory and its relevance to child sexual abuse, the criminal responsibility of young people in Australia and China, and the experiences of girls in custody in the Brazilian youth justice system. They also discuss the involvement of children in armed conflicts across different jurisdictions, and present reformist perspectives on juvenile legal systems, including reflections on the minimum age of criminal responsibility and abolitionist debates. Providing global insights, case studies and real-life examples, the Research Handbook on Youth Criminology will be an invaluable resource for university students and academic researchers in sociology and criminology, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in juvenile justice and youth governance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Part I: Introduction

1. Juvenile justice and youth governance: Themes, trends and perspectives / Estrella Pearce and Greg Martin

Part II: Theories and concepts in youth criminology

2. Moral panic theory and child sexual abuse: Relevance, applications, utility / Francis Maxwell

3. A popular criminology of youth justice / Jessica Urwin

4. The history and development of criminal responsibility of young people in Chinese criminal law / Xiaotong Li and Andra Le Roux-Kemp

Part III: Methods of researching youth crime and juvenile justice

5. Participation in youth justice research: Involving children in the telling of their own stories / Kathy Hampson and Stephen Case

6. Using the participatory approach of world café with adaptions to capture crime experiences and crime prevention solutions in the uk / Sarah Page

7. Doing car-based youth justice appointments during young people's mobility transitions / Sarah Brooks-Wilson

8. Methodological and ethical considerations in researching social media posts about drill music / James Alexander

Part IV: Geographies of youth criminology

9. The need to break the cycle: A profile of the girls placed in custody in the youth justice system in minas gerais, brazil / Maria João Leote de Carvalho, Tatiana Maria Marques Tironi and Luciana Assis Costa

10. 'Contrasts in tolerance': On the benefits of a cross-sectoral approach to youth penality / Siobhán Buckley and Claire Hamilton

11. Between compassion and repression: State agents governing vulnerable youth in brazil / Sara Leon Spesny and Vagner dos Santos

Part V: Institutional contexts of youth criminology and juvenile justice

12. Addressing legacies of 'care' and criminalisation: Responding to the deaths of crossover children and young people / Rebecca Scott Bray

13. Care-experienced and incarcerated: The perceptions of children in care about their pathways into, through and out of custody / Anne-Marie Day

14. Rights respecting? Child custody in the United Kingdom / Deena Haydon

Part VI: Governance around youth crime and juvenile justice

15. Youth justice in peacebuilding contexts: Barriers to justice for children in armed violence in colombia / Tove Nyberg

16. Penal populism and the decline of nordic exceptionalism in Sweden / Orlaith Rice, Silvia Gagliardi and Daniela Rodriguez Gutierrez

Part VII: Current issues, future research and new directions in youth criminology

17. Australia's push to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility: Is / years old enough? / Estrella Pearce

18. Advocating abolitionist views in juvenile legal systems: A critical reflection of reformist practices from an abolitionist perspective / Melanie Schorsch, Lisa Tölle and Jan Tölle

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print record.

ISBN:

9781035300754 (e-book)

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.