Youth Justice

A Contextualised Understanding

Stephen Case

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781447369684
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Policy development and implementation has a pivotal role in the youth justice system, profoundly impacting professionals and the children they work with. This imaginative book challenges limited explanations of policy-making as linear and government-dominated through original research into the practices, identities and relationships of a wide range of stakeholders working in multiple policy- making contexts in England and Wales.

The result is a detailed expert analysis of the contexts and mechanisms of youth justice policy-making. This book is key reading for researchers, professionals and students seeking effective understandings and responses to the long term social problem of youth offending.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: a contextualised understanding of youth justice policy making
• 1 The contextualised construction of youth justice policy
• 2 Methodology: exploring contextualised constructions of youth justice policy
• 3 Expansionist ‘new youth justice’ policy
• 4 Austerity youth justice as tentative policy ‘progress’
• 5 Exploring youth justice policy-making contexts and mechanisms
• 6 Professional identities, expertise and evidence
• 7 The centrality of relationships in youth justice policy making
• 8 Discussion: towards a contextualised understanding of youth justice policy making
• Appendix 1 List of stakeholder interviewees
• Appendix 2 Critical commentary: researcher reflection on the introduction of the Scaled Approach
• Appendix 3 The Child First ‘Strategy Implementation Project’
• Appendix 4 What is youth justice policy making?
• Appendix 5 Who makes youth justice policy? Governmental actors
• Appendix 6 Who makes youth justice policy? Non-governmental actors
• Appendix 7 How does youth justice policy making happen?
• Appendix 8 Policy discourses as governmental identity
• Appendix 9 Youth Justice Board policy-making role and influence
• Appendix 10 Experts, experience and evidence
• Appendix 11 Professional lived experience, expertise and evidence generation
• Appendix 12 Power dynamics as relational policy making
• Appendix 13 Power dynamics and YJB relationships with non-governmental organisations
• Appendix 14 Mechanisms of relational, collaborative policy making
• Notes
• References
• Index