Youth and Crime
Student Resources
Youth Victimology
Annotated Further Reading
Goodey, J. (2005) Victims and Victimology: Research, Policy and Practice. Harlow: Pearson/Longman.
A good introductory text to victimology in general.
Mawby, R. and Walklate, S. (1994) Critical Victimology. London: Sage.
The clearest expression of the limitations of positivist victimology in general and the victimization survey in particular.
Chapter 1 – ‘Perspectives on Victimology’
Anderson, S., Kinsey, R., Loader, I. and Smith, C. (1994) Cautionary Tales: Young People, Crime and Policing in Edinburgh. Aldershot: Avebury.
A pioneering study of youth victimization on the streets. Its discovery of widespread victimization was one of the first to call into question the usual ways of understanding the ‘youth problem’.
Brown, S. (1998) Understanding Youth and Crime: Listening to Youth? Buckingham: Open University Press. Chapter 5 provides an assessment of the nature and extent of violence and abuse experienced in familial and institutional settings as well as a critical evaluation of inherent limitations in governmental response.
There is little academic work on the extent of child exploitation worldwide but the reports by the United Nations and UNICEF are informative.
United Nations General Assembly (2006) Report of the Independent Expert for the United Nations on Violence Against Children, 61st Session, A/61/299. Geneva: United Nations.
http://www.unicef.org/violencestudy/reports/SG_violencestudy_en.pdf
A devastating expose of adult violence and indifference to children’s humanity and dignity.
Weblinks
The site of the National Society for the Protection of Children focusing on child abuse and child protection and with free access to its numerous research reports at www.nspcc.org.uk/inform/research/findings/researchfindings_wda48259.html
www.unicef.org/protection/index_exploitation.html
The United Nations Children’s Fund site for the protection of children from violence, abuse and exploitation, including links to numerous relevant ‘focus areas’.
Hosted by the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre based in Florence, Italy, this site is dedicated to the protection of children and advocacy of child rights. The site allows access to many of its publications including analyses and recommendations to combat child trafficking worldwide.
http://childrenandarmedconflict.un.org/
Office of the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict.
The children and armed conflict unit based at the University of Essex has up-to-date information on how children continue to be affected by armed conflict around the world.
ECPAT UK is a children’s rights non-governmental organization, campaigning since 1993 to protect children from all forms of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre is dedicated to eradicating the sexual abuse of children.