Understanding Youth and Crime: Listening to Youth?
- ISBN-10
- 0335200044
- ISBN-13
- 9780335200047
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Open University Press
- Author
- Sheila Brown
Description
Youth has been a focus of the sociologies of deviance, popular culture, and criminology. The text reassesses the growing body of writing and research about crime and young people. It provides a critical introduction to the study of youth, crime and punishment of the social construction of youth, crime and punishment, an examination of developments in policy and practice since the 1970s and an assessment of new trends in research and theory. It offers a critical treatment of the marginalization of young people as spectacular and deviant and calls for a criminolgy that listens to youth.
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Other editions
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- 2005-08-01
- 253 pages
- Paperback
- McGraw-Hill Education (UK)