Rob WhiteUniversity of Tasmania, Australia, Chris CunneenAssociate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
ISBN13: 9780195512236
ISBN: 0195512235
Published: October 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
Price: Out of print
This work explores the nature of juvenile crime and the responses of the juvenile justice system.
Contents:
Part I History, theory, and institutions: the development of juvenile justice; theories of juvenile offending; the nature of contemporary juvenile crime; the institutions of juvenile justice. Part II The social dynamics of juvenile justice: class and community; indigenous young people; ethnic minority young people; young women, young men, and gender. Part III The state, punishment and community: policing the young; courts and sentencing processes; detention and community corrections; youth crime prevention; restorative justice and juvenile conferencing.
