Youth justice : critical readings / edited by John Muncie, Gordon Hughes, Eugene McLaughlin.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modes of youth governance : political rationalities, criminalization and resistance / John Muncie and Gordon Hughes -- Constructions and reconstructions of British childhood : an interpretative survey, 1800 to the present / Harry Hendrick -- Youth crime and moral decline : permissiveness and tradition / Geoffrey Pearson -- Lesser breeds without the law / Paul Gilroy -- Rethinking moral panic for multi-mediated social worlds / Angela McRobbie and Sarah Thornton -- The vilification and pleasures of youthful transgression / Keith Hayward -- Innocence and experience : the evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century / Margaret May -- The invention of juvenile delinquency in early nineteenth-century England / Susan Magarey -- The three Rs : repression, rescue and rehabilitation ideologies of control for working-class youth / John Clarke --

The government of a generation : the subject of juvenile delinquency / Peter Rush -- Reforming the juvenile : gender, justice and the child criminal in nineteenth-century England / Heather Shore -- The triumph of benevolence : the origins of the juvenile justice system in the United States / Anthony Platt -- Penal strategies in a welfare state / David Garland -- On the decriminalisation of English juvenile courts / Anthony Bottoms -- Children's hearings and children in trouble / Janice McGhee, Lorraine Waterhouse and Bill Whyte -- Restorative youth justice : the last vestiges of welfare? / Loraine Gelsthorpe and Allison Morris -- Wider, stronger and different nets : the dialectics of criminal justice reform / James Austin and Barry Krisberg -- Justice, retribution and children / Stewart Asquith -- Whose justice? The politics of juvenile control / John Clarke --

'Troublesome girls' : towards alternative definitions and policies / Annie Hudson -- Challenging the criminalization of children and young people : securing a rights-based agenda / Phil Scranton and Deena Haydon -- Failure never matters : detention centers and the politics of deterrence / John Muncie -- The boot camp and the limits of modern penality / Jonathan Simon -- The reductionist agenda / Andrew Rutherford -- The future of imprisonment / Thomas Mathiesen -- New punitiveness : the politics of child incarceration / Barry Goldson -- Corporatism : the third model of juvenile justice / John Pratt -- The end of an era / John Pitts -- Understanding and preventing youth crime / David Farrington -- Expanding realms of the new penology : the advent of actuarial justice for juveniles / Kimberly Kempf-Leonard and Elicka Peterson -- The contemporary politics of youth crime prevention / Tim Newburn.