This timely Handbook provides historical, contemporary, theoretical and methodological perspectives on youth criminology. It explores cutting-edge research on juvenile justice and youth governance and proposes directions for future research.
Bringing together a diverse range of international experts, the Handbook emphasises the hybrid nature of youth justice governance, highlighting ongoing debates over prioritising human rights, welfare, justice, or risk management. The chapters explore trends in youth criminology drawing on empirical data from a variety of geographical and institutional contexts of juvenile justice. Key topics include the care and criminalisation of institutionalised children, moral panic theory and its relevance to child sexual abuse, the criminal responsibility of young people in Australia and China, and the experiences of girls in custody in the Brazilian youth justice system. They also discuss the involvement of children in armed conflicts across different jurisdictions, and present reformist perspectives on juvenile legal systems, including reflections on the minimum age of criminal responsibility and abolitionist debates.
Providing global insights, case studies and real-life examples, the Research Handbook on Youth Criminology will be an invaluable resource for university students and academic researchers in sociology and criminology, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in juvenile justice and youth governance.
Contents
PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Juvenile justice and youth governance: themes, trends and perspectives 2
Estrella Pearce and Greg Martin
PART II THEORIES AND CONCEPTS IN YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY
2 Moral panic theory and child sexual abuse: relevance, applications, utility 31
Francis Maxwell
3 A popular criminology of youth justice 46
Jessica Urwin
4 The history and development of criminal responsibility of young people in
Chinese criminal law 61
Xiaotong Li and Andra Le Roux-Kemp
PART III METHODS OF RESEARCHING YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE
JUSTICE
5 Participation in youth justice research: involving children in the telling of
their own stories 75
Kathy Hampson and Stephen Case
6 Using the participatory approach of World Café with adaptions to capture
crime experiences and crime prevention solutions in the UK 94
Sarah Page
7 Doing car-based youth justice appointments during young people’s
mobility transitions 111
Sarah Brooks-Wilson
8 Methodological and ethical considerations in researching social media
posts about drill music 127
James Alexander
PART IV GEOGRAPHIES OF YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY
9 The need to break the cycle: a profile of the girls placed in custody in the
youth justice system in Minas Gerais, Brazil 144
Maria João Leote de Carvalho, Tatiana Maria Marques Tironi and
Luciana Assis Costa
10 ‘Contrasts in Tolerance’: on the benefits of a cross-sectoral approach to
youth penality 163
Siobhán Buckley and Claire Hamilton
11 Between compassion and repression: state agents governing vulnerable
youth in Brazil 181
Sara Leon Spesny and Vagner dos Santos
PART V INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS OF YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY AND
JUVENILE JUSTICE
12 Addressing legacies of ‘care’ and criminalisation: responding to the deaths
of crossover children and young people 198
Rebecca Scott Bray
13 Care-experienced and incarcerated: the perceptions of children in care
about their pathways into, through and out of custody 219
Anne-Marie Day
14 Rights respecting? Child custody in the United Kingdom 237
Deena Haydon
PART VI GOVERNANCE AROUND YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE
15 Youth justice in peacebuilding contexts: barriers to justice for children in
armed violence in Colombia 258
Tove Nyberg
16 Penal populism and the decline of Nordic exceptionalism in Sweden 277
Orlaith Rice, Silvia Gagliardi and Daniela Rodriguez Gutierrez
PART VII CURRENT ISSUES, FUTURE RESEARCH AND NEW
DIRECTIONS IN YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY
17 Australia’s push to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility: is 12
years old enough? 298
Estrella Pearce
18 Advocating abolitionist views in juvenile legal systems: a critical reflection
of reformist practices from an abolitionist perspective 324
Melanie Schorsch, Lisa Tölle and Jan Tölle
Index 339
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