Youth Justice and Penality in Comparative Context

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality, exploring trends in law, policy, and practice over forty years. It critically examines the impacts of legislative and policy reforms, public representations, international human rights standards, and the production and reproduction of social injustices. It is essential reading for researchers, students, and tutors in criminology, criminal justice, law, social policy, sociology, and youth studies.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 242 pages
\n Publication date: 30 October 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
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This groundbreaking book represents the first comprehensive analysis of Anglo-Australian youth justice and penality, making substantial theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of comparative criminology. By examining trends in law, policy, and practice over a forty-year period, the book critically surveys the "moving images of youth justice regimes and penal cultures," the primary drivers of reform, the core outcomes of such processes, and their overall implications for theory building. It addresses a wide range of critical questions, including:

How has the temporal and spatial patterning of youth justice and penality evolved since the early 1980s to the present time?

What impacts have legislative and policy reforms imposed upon processes of criminalization, sentencing practices, and the use of penal detention for children and young people?

How do we comprehend both the diverse ways in which public representations of "young offenders" are shaped, structured, and disseminated and the varied, conflicting, and contradictory effects of such representations?

To what extent do international human rights standards influence law, policy, and practice in the realms of youth justice and penality?

To what extent are youth justice systems implicated in the production and reproduction of social injustices?

How, and to what degree, are youth justice systems and penal cultures internationalized, nationalized, regionalized, or localized?

This book is a must-read for researchers, students, and tutors in criminology, criminal justice, law, social policy, sociology, and youth studies. Its comprehensive insights and analysis provide valuable perspectives on the complex dynamics of youth justice and penality in Anglo-Australia and beyond, contributing to our understanding of these critical issues and shaping the future of research and policy in this field.

\n Weight: 408g\n
Dimension: 156 x 235 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780815374466\n \n