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The New Politics of Youth Crime

Discipline or Solidarity?

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  • © 2001

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Authors:
  1. John Pitts

    1. The University of Luton, UK

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Editors:
  1. Jo Campling
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. The Disciplinary Tradition

    • John Pitts
    Pages 1-12

  3. Things Can Only Get Better

    • John Pitts
    Pages 13-36

  4. Hard Labour

    • John Pitts
    Pages 37-64

  5. The Confrontation with Consequences

    • John Pitts
    Pages 65-76

  6. The Development of Discernment

    • John Pitts
    Pages 77-100

  7. After the Goldrush

    • John Pitts
    Pages 101-130

  8. The Erosion of Solidarity

    • John Pitts
    Pages 131-159

  9. A Tale of Two Housing Estates

    • John Pitts
    Pages 160-200

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 201-218
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About this book

The New Politics of Youth Crime argues that the centrality of 'law and order' to the New Labour project has generated a youth justice strategy which threatens to deepen the problems it purports to solve. Analysing the profound changes in UK youth crime in the 1980s, this book posits the French Social Prevention Initiative of the 1980s as an alternative model for a genuinely 'joined-up', social democratic response to the increasingly complex problem of youth crime in Europe.

Authors and Affiliations

  • The University of Luton, UK

    John Pitts

About the author

JOHN PITTS is Vauxhall Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Luton. His publications include The Politics of Juvenile Crime (1988), Working with Young Offenders (1999), Developing Services for Young People in Crisis (1991), Preventing School Bullying (1995) and Positive Residential Practice: Learning the Lessons of the 1990s. John Pitts is chair of the board of Social Work in Europe, contributes the Youth Crime and Youth Justice section to the journal Research Matters and is a board member of the UNESCO journal Juvenile Justice Worldwide.

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