Understanding youth and crime listening to youth?

This book is an accessible introduction to the subject of youth and crime. The author explores the social construction of childhood and youth, and looks at the role of the media in creating a strong association of young people with crime and disorder, which sustains processes of marginalization and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Brown, Sheila, 1959- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Maidenhead, England ; New York, NY : Open University Press 2005.
Edición:Second edition
Colección:Crime and justice (Buckingham, England)
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Constructing the other : childhood and youth
  • 2. Problem youth meets criminology : the formative decadees
  • 3. Representing problem youth : the repackaging of reality
  • 4. In whose interests? Politics, policy and UK youth justice
  • 5. 'Punishing youth' : victims or villians?
  • 6. Youth and crime : beyond the boy zone
  • 7. Netdangers : cyberkids and cybercrimes
  • 8. Beyond boundaries : understanding global youth and crime
  • 9. Conclusion : listening to youth?.