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Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice: Scaffolding as Structure (Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice) - Hardcover

Brisman, Avi

 
9781138552517: Fieldnotes on a Study of Young People’s Perceptions of Crime and Justice: Scaffolding as Structure (Routledge Studies in Crime, Security and Justice)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138552518 ISBN 13: 9781138552517
Publisher: Routledge, 2022

Synopsis

This book is an ethnographic examination of the young people who serve voluntarily as judges, advocates and other court personnel at the Red Hook Youth Court (RHYC) in Brooklyn, New York―a juvenile diversion program designed to prevent the formal processing of juvenile offenders―usually first-time offenders―for low-level offenses (such as fare evasion, truancy, vandalism) within the juvenile justice system.

Focusing on the nine-to-ten-week long unpaid training program that the young people undergo prior to becoming RHYC members, this book offers a detailed description of young people’s experiences learning about crime, delinquency, justice, and law. Combining moments of self-reflection and autobiographical elements into largely "uncooked" fieldnotes, the book seeks to demonstrate the hegemonic operations of a court (the Red Hook Community Justice Center (RHCJC)―a multi-jurisdictional problem-solving court and community center where the RHYC is housed), the processes in which it secures belief in formal justice and the rule of law, ensures consent to be governed, and reproduces existing social structures.

An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, law, sociology, and youth justice, as well as to those undertaking ethnographic research on young people, crime and justice.

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About the Author

Avi Brisman is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky University, USA, an Adjunct Professor in the School of Justice at Queensland University of Technology, Australia, and an Honorary Professor at Newcastle Law School at the University of Newcastle, Australia.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138552518
ISBN 13 
9781138552517
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
206