Incarcerated Young People, Education and Social Justice

This book explores the challenges and possibilities of education as a conduit for social justice in custodial youth justice, drawing on interviews, data, and international scholarship. It emphasizes the right of children and young people to access education while incarcerated and highlights the importance of participatory parity in enabling their participation.

Format: Hardback
Length: 265 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2023
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

This book emphasizes the importance of providing education to young individuals who have been remanded or sentenced to custody. Both international conventions and national legislation and guidelines in numerous countries recognize the right of children and young people to access education while in incarcerated settings. Furthermore, education is often regarded as a crucial protective and rehabilitative factor. However, the conditions associated with incarceration present unique challenges for facilitating participation in education.

Bridging the fields of education and youth justice, this book offers a social justice analysis through the lens of 'participatory parity.' The book brings together rare interviews with staff and young people in youth justice settings in Australia, secondary data from these sites, a suite of pertinent and frank reports, and international scholarship. Drawing on this rich set of material, the book demonstrates not only the challenges but also the possibilities for education as a conduit for social justice in custodial youth justice.

The book will have immediate relevance to governments and youth justice staff for fulfilling their obligation of enabling children and young people in custody to benefit from education. It will also be of interest to scholars and researchers in education, youth work, and criminology.

Weight: 503g
Dimension: 210 x 148 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031231285
Edition number: 1st ed. 2023