Synopses & Reviews
The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of "law and order" to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy that threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analyzing the profound changes in UK youth crime in the 1980s, this book posits the French Social Prevention Initiative of the 1980s as an alternative model for a genuinely "joined-up," social democratic response to the increasingly complex problems of youth crime in Europe.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-212) and index.
About the Author
John Pitts is Vauxhall Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Luton and Director of the Vauxhall Center for the Study of Crime.
Table of Contents
The Disciplinary Tradition * Things Can Only Get Better * Hard Labour * Consequences * The Development of Discernment * After the Goldrush * The Erosion of Solidarity * A Tale of Two Housing Estates