Youth and Crime
- John Muncie - The Open University, UK
This book provides you with the most comprehensive and authoritative overview of youth crime and youth justice available.
Keeping you abreast of contemporary debates, this fourth edition of Youth and Crime :
- Includes updated chapters on youth crime discourse and data, youth victimology, youth and social policy, youth justice strategies and comparative and international youth justice, providing a critical analysis of issues such as institutional abuse, child poverty, cyberbullying, child trafficking, international children's rights and transnational policy transfer.
- Covers numerous issues raised by the UK coalition government’s law and order and austerity policies including ages of criminal responsibility, the ‘rehabilitation revolution’, ‘troubled families’, abolition of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs), initiatives in gangs, gun and knife crime, responses to the August 2011 riots, prospects for restorative justice and reductions in child imprisonment.
- Keeps you up to date with contemporary research into explanations of youth crime, youth and media, youth cultures, youth unemployment and training programmes, and youth justice policies and takes into account recent legislative reform.
- Features a new companion website, featuring links to journal articles, relevant websites, blogs and government reports.
Complete with chapter outlines, summary boxes, key terms, study questions, further reading lists, web-based resources and a glossary, this is the textbook to take you through your studies in youth and crime.
Supplements
Free resources on the companion website:
- Annotated links to online readings, including websites, blogs and reports
- PowerPoint Slides to accompany each chapter
Fabulous - a comprehensive exploration of up-to-date and relevant issues, backed up by a thorough bibliography, useful glossary and detailed charts and figures. Not only does it explain historical changes in legislation but also delves deeply into the concept of childhood, the changing aspects of welfare, labelling and the parameters of societal views, and much more. It uses recent cases to explore assumptions in a way that will stimulate student interest, particularly in the chapters which explore media representations of crime and of the influence of youth culture. And the companion website adds hugely to an already great resource for both students and tutors with immensely useful powerpoints to introduce topics for discussion.
This text is excellent and will support the foundation degree working with youn gpeople with barriers to progression - a real insight into young people and crime
Updated and revised, Muncie remains valid within this field.
Excellent - a useful update on the earlier edition
Altjough my module is sociological rather than focused on youth justice, Muncie's work provides solid and well argued background understanding of young people and their treatment in society.
This book presents an excellent review of one of the most important areas of Criminology: youth crime. The relation established by this book between the criminological theory and the special characteristics of this type of crime is very interesting. And those chapters related to Criminal Politics and the strategies for its prevention and formal control are even more interesting (and unusual).
Excellent overview of the subject - very accessible and comprehensive. The essential book for students studying this topic on our degree courses
This book is excellent. It is without a doubt essential reading for anyone studying youth criminology!
The new edition of John Muncie's Youth and Crime provides an excellent update to text that is all ready very well regarded, and is especially popular with students. It contains comprehensive, accessible and up-to-date material for learners on my Youth Justice module. I would just like to see some content added to the companion website!
Essential resource for students of criminology & criminal justice system - comprehensive and up-to-date review of developments and research.
- Updated chapters on: youth crime discourse and data, youth victimology, youth and social policy, youth justice strategies and comparative and international youth justice, providing a critical analysis of issues such as institutional abuse, child poverty, cyberbullying, child trafficking, international children's rights and transnational policy transfer
- Coverage of numerous issues raised by the UK coalition government’s law and order and austerity policies including ages of criminal responsibility, the ‘rehabilitation revolution’, ‘troubled families’, abolition of antisocial behaviour orders (ASBOs), initiatives in gangs, gun and knife crime, responses to the August 2011 riots, prospects for restorative justice and reductions in child imprisonment
- Inclusion of contemporary research into explanations of youth crime, youth and media, youth cultures, youth unemployment and training programmes, and youth justice policies and takes into account recent legislative reform.
- A brand new companion website, featuring links to journal articles, relevant websites, blogs and government reports.
