Rougher justice : anti-social behaviour and young people /

Rougher justice : anti-social behaviour and young people /

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Author / Creator:	Squires, Peter, 1958-
Imprint:	Cullompton : Willan, 2005.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 238 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Juvenile delinquency. Juvenile justice, Administration of. Juvenile delinquency. Juvenile justice, Administration of. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11302549

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Other authors / contributors:	Stephen, Dawn E.
ISBN:	9781134043194 1134043198 9781843926702 1843926709 1843921111 9781843921110 1282237942 9781282237940 9786612237942 6612237945
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"Anti-social behaviour has, seemingly very quickly, become society's top 'crime and disorder' problem. Recent proposals for 'naming and shaming' young offenders appear to strike a popular chord in many areas. But where has this preoccupation with anti-social behaviour come from? What fears and concerns drive it? What action is the government actually taking and what are the likely consequences?" "This book comprises a critical evaluation of this recent preoccupation with anti-social behaviour. It explores the origins of contemporary discourses and how they have often related to concerns about the behaviour of young people. Anti-social behaviour is examined in the context of the youth justice strategy evolving from the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. The authors show how a new 'politics of behaviour' connects with recent discourses on 'responsibilisation' and the 'dispersal of discipline' to extend enforcement and criminalisation processes impacting disproportionately upon marginalised young people." "The book draws upon the authors' own research on public perceptions of anti-social behaviour, on the manufactured onset of youthful criminal careers and upon the policing of acceptable behaviour, in order to develop and illustrate the arguments of the book. It concludes by suggesting that anti-social behaviour marks the leading edge of a new strategy of 'precautionary injustice' in British crime and disorder management."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Squires, Peter, 1958- Rougher justice. Cullompton : Willan, 2005 1843921111
Govt.docs classification:	CRI2106

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Summary:	Anti-social behaviour has become a major political preoccupation of government and combating it is now a major plank of criminal justice policy. Yet anti-social behaviour as a concept has been little studied, and the notion has often been accepted uncritically. This book aims to meet this need, providing a critique of the government's use of the concept of anti-social behaviour and of youth justice strategy more generally. Rougher Justice foregrounds the perspectives and experiences of young people themselves. It draws upon recent developments within the field of cultural criminology to provide an alternative interpretation of the construction of 'youthful criminal careers'. It is underpinned by research in three separate areas which focus on the new youth justice, youthful criminal careers, and anti-social behaviour and acceptable behaviour enforcement. Central to the book is an ambition to understand youthful delinquency from the inside and to recover what is lost in much of New Labour's youth justice strategy --and the methods adopted by the Youth Justice Board to evaluate this strategy, that is to say a situated and interpretive understanding of youthful delinquency drawn from the perspective of and in the voices of young people themselves.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (x, 238 pages)
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9781134043194 1134043198 9781843926702 1843926709 1843921111 9781843921110 1282237942 9781282237940 9786612237942 6612237945