Goldson, B. (ed.) (2000a) The New Youth Justice. Lyme Regis: Russell House.

Pitts, J. (2001) The New Politics of Youth Crime: Discipline or Solidarity? Basingstoke: Palgrave.

Smith, R. (2003) Youth Justice: Ideas, Policy, Practice. Cullompton: Willan.

Goldson, B. and Muncie, J. (eds) (2015) Youth Crime and Justice: Critical Issues, 2nd edn. London: Sage.

All provide some of the most incisive critiques of recent youth justice reform.

 

There is a wide literature on all of the specific interventions discussed in this chapter.

 

For the principles of early intervention;

Farrington, D. and Welsh, B. (2007) Saving Children from a Life of Crime. Oxford: Oxford

University Press.

 

For the politics of anti-social behaviour;

Burney, E. (2005) Making People Behave: Antisocial Behaviour, Politics and Policy.

Cullompton: Willan. and

 

Squires, P. (ed) (2008) ASBO Nation: The Criminalisation of Nuisance. Bristol: Policy

Press.

 

 

For managerialism;

Clarke, J. and Newman, J. (1997) The Managerial State. London: Sage.

 

For restorative justice;

Johnstone, G. (2002) Restorative Justice: Ideas, Values and Debates. Cullompton: Willan.

 

For youth custody;

Goldson, B. (2002c) Vulnerable Inside: Children in Secure and Penal Settings. London: The Children’s Society.

 

Goldson, B. (2009) ‘Child incarceration: institutional abuse, the violent state and the politics of impunity’, in Scraton, P. and McCulloch, J. (eds), The Violence of Incarceration. London: Routledge.

 

For the UK’s record in complying with children’s rights frameworks, see

Scraton, P. and Haydon, D. (2002) ‘Challenging the criminalisation of children and young people: securing a rights based agenda’ in Muncie, J., Hughes, G. and McLaughlin, E. (eds), Youth Justice: Critical Readings. London: Sage. and United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2008)

 

For some of the most incisive critiques of early system intervention, see

McAra, L. and McVie, S. (2010) ‘Youth crime and justice: key messages from the Edinburgh study of youth transitions and crime’, Criminology and Criminal Justice, 10 (2): 179–210.

 

To keep up to date in this fast moving field you should consult the journal Youth Justice: An International Journal, which carries a Youth Justice News section updated three times a year.

www.childrenssociety.org.uk

Site of The Children’s Society.

www.nacro.org.uk

Site of National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders (NACRO), the principal independent organization in England and Wales work­ing to prevent crime and resettle ex-prisoners. Online copies of its journal Safer Society until its final edition in winter 2007/2008 can be accessed at www.safer society.org.uk.

www.nayj.org.uk

Site of key pressure group – National Association for Youth Justice.

www.nya.org.uk

Site of National Youth Agency.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/youth-custody-data

Access to the Ministry of Justice/Youth

www.howardleague.org/

The home site of the UK’s leading penal reform agency, with a long history of pioneering work in the youth justice field. The weekly ‘prison watch’, providing regularly updated penal statistics, is particularly useful.

www.statewatch.org/asbo/ASBOwatch.html

Site established to monitor the use of anti-social behaviour orders. Provides useful library of media reports on the ‘anti-social’.

www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/

Site of the Prison Reform Trust, with access to many of its research publications.

www.scyj.org.uk

Site of the Standing Committee for Youth Justice, an alliance of over 30 organiza­tions campaigning for a child-focused youth justice system. Includes access to its commentaries on current policy debates and legislative reform.