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Youth Justice

Towards a Contextualised Understanding of Policy Making

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Author:
Stephen Case

Policy development and implementation has a pivotal role in the youth justice system, with a profound impact upon professionals and the children they work with. Presenting original research on a variety of stakeholder policy-makers in England and Wales, this book is key reading for researchers and practitioners responding to youth offending.

Publisher:
Policy Press
Publication Date:
20 Jun 2024
Online ISBN:
9781447369691
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.51952/9781447369691
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Front Matter
Front Matter
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
Back Matter
List of stakeholder interviewees
Critical commentary: researcher reflection on the introduction of the Scaled Approach
The Child First ‘Strategy Implementation Project’
What is youth justice policy making?
Who makes youth justice policy? Governmental actors
Who makes youth justice policy? Non-governmental actors
How does youth justice policy making happen?
Policy discourses as governmental identity
Youth Justice Board policy-making role and influence
Experts, experience and evidence
Professional lived experience, expertise and evidence generation
Power dynamics as relational policy making
Power dynamics and YJB relationships with non-governmental organisations
Mechanisms of relational, collaborative policy making
Notes
References
Index

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.

Stephen Case is Professor of Youth Justice in the Department of Criminology, Sociology & Social Policy at Loughborough University.

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Copyright:
© Bristol University Press 2024
Hardback ISBN:
9781447369660
ePub ISBN:
9781447369684
Online ISBN:
9781447369691
Page Extent:
278
Keywords:
Policy-making, Policy-makers; Youth Justice; Constructed Reality; Children; Childhood Power
Global Social Challenges:
Justice, Law and Human Rights
Sustainable Development Goals:
Goal 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Subject:
Children, Young People and Families, Childhood and Youth Studies, Youth and Community Work, Criminology, Crime and Society, Criminal Justice, Youth Justice
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