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Youth justice is a key area of the current UK government's criminal justice policy in England and Wales. It has been the subject of an inordinate amount of recent legislation seeking to enhance the criminal courts' powers to punish and prevent offending and re-offending by young people. This legislation attempts to prevent offending through criminal justice measures and there is little attempt to use non-criminal or civil law procedures to achieve the same result. Devils and Angels seeks to challenge that focus and to question why delinquency in young people has been so firmly criminalized in this jurisdiction. The book addresses the consequences of criminalization in terms of the effectiveness of the measures used as well as the implications for the social construction of youth and childhood and our attitudes towards the young. Criminalization of young people's behavior results in them being labeled as criminal, losing identity as an individual, losing their childhood through the process of taking adult responsibility for their actions, and in policy terms, becoming viewed as a crime problem rather than as a product of failing social policy regarding employment, education, and you

Author

JULIA FINDA, Fionda, Julia, Julia Fionda

Publisher

Beck/Hart Publishing

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781841133744

Subjects

Social Science, Law, Social_sciences