There are numerous reviews of post-war developments in juvenile and youth jus­tice in England and Wales including:

Harris, R. and Webb, P. (1987) Welfare, Power and Juvenile Justice. London: Tavistock.

Gelsthorpe, L. and Morris, A. (1994) ‘Juvenile justice 1945–1992’, in Maguire, M., Morgan, R. and Reiner, R. (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Criminology. Oxford: Clarendon. and

Pitts, J. (1988) The Politics of Juvenile Crime. London: Sage.

 

Audit Commission (1996) Misspent Youth: Young People and Crime. London: Audit

Commission.

http://archive.audit-commission.gov.uk/auditcommission/subwebs/publications/studies/studyPDF/1172.pdf

and

Audit Commission (2004) Youth Justice 2004: A Review of the Reformed Youth Justice System. London: Audit Commission.

http://archive.audit-commission.gov.uk/auditcommission/sitecollectiondocuments/AuditCommissionReports/NationalStudies/Youth%20Justice_report_web.pdf

 

Are both clear examples of how managerial solutions can be embedded in youth justice.

 

For critical commentaries on youth justice post-1997 in England and Wales see

 

Goldson, B. and Muncie, J. (eds) (2015) Youth Crime and Justice: Critical Issues. 2e London: Sage The second edition of this volume (2015) traces the development of youth justice in the context of the politics of austerity.

Chapter 6 – David Smith ‘What Evidence for Youth justice’

 

For critical commentaries on developments in Scotland, see both

Piacentini, L. and Walters, R. (2006) ‘The politicization of youth crime in Scotland and the rise of the “Burberry Court’”’, Youth Justice, 6 (1): 43–60.

And

McAra, L. (2006) ‘Welfare in crisis? Key developments in Scottish youth justice’, in Muncie, J. and Goldson, B. (eds), Comparative Youth Justice. London: Sage.

 

Bernard, T.J. (1992) The Cycle of Juvenile Justice. New York: Oxford. Justice is an insightful analysis of how the system is trapped in its own contradictions by regularly reproducing limited modes of understanding and the same failed policy frameworks.

Muncie, Hughes and McLaughlin’s edited collection Youth Justice: Critical Readings (2002) brings together many of the classic texts with critical commentaries.

Goldson, B. (ed.) (2008b) Dictionary of Youth Justice. Cullompton: Willan. is an invaluable source of information on legislative powers, practice issues and theoretical concerns which does more than most to make sense of the complexity of modern youth justice not just in England and Wales but also in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The journal Youth Justice: An International Journal is the only UK-based crimi­nology journal to focus specifically on youth justice

 

www.audit-commission.gov.uk

The site of the Audit Commission providing access to its assessments of youth justice in England and Wales.

www.justice.gov.uk/about/yjb

The site of the youth justice board for England and Wales with access to many of its online reports, statistics and details of contemporary powers and procedures.

www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Justice/crimes/youth-justice

The Youth Justice site of the Scottish Government.

www.youthjusticeagencyni.gov.uk/

Site of the youth justice agency in Northern Ireland.

http://wales.gov.uk/topics/childrenyoungpeople/safe/youthjustice/?lang=en

The youth justice system in Wales is provided by devolved and non-devolved organizations. The Welsh Government is responsible for welfare, which is devolved. The UK government runs enforcement, which is non-devolved.