“The style is lively and readable, and the reader is pointed unobtrusively within the text towards the work of the leading authors in the field... a thorough and thoughtful introduction to the subject.”
Social Policy
“a critical and scholarly summary of the state of research and theorizing around ‘youth and crime’ ... This book provides a useful and challenging overview of the topic for undergraduate students.”
The Times Higher Education Supplement
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 exclusion and leads to frequent ‘panics’ about youth crime. The importance of media representations of race and gender in these processes are also explored.
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