John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal. Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

`This is a valuable student text; carefully collated and with an abuntant array of material... and will surely become a widely used course reader. For the practitioner and general reader it is a book to dip into, a means to access debates and remind oneself of the ebb and flow of policy′ - Youth Justice`An excellent reader. It contains all the basic ingredients of a superb teaching book with the qualities of a thought-provoking text.... Should be required reading for all students of criminal justice policy and it will be a valuable teaching resource for all those involved in the delivery of courses on young people, justice and punishment′ - Punishment and Society

• Modes of Youth Governance - John Muncie and Gordon HughesPolitical Rationalities, Criminalization and ResistancePART ONE: FOLK DEVILS: CONSTRUCTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF YOUTH AND CRIMEConstructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood - Harry HendrickAn Interpretative Survey, 1800 to the PresentYouth Crime and Moral Decline - Geoffrey PearsonPermissiveness and TraditionLesser Breeds Without the Law - Paul GilroyRethinking Moral Panic for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds - Angela McRobbie and Sarah ThorntonThe Vilification and Pleasures of Youthful Transgression - Keith HaywardPART TWO: THE ORIGINS OF YOUTH JUSTICEInnocence and Experience - Margaret MayThe Evolution of the Concept of Juvenile Delinquency in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyThe Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth-Century England - Susan MagareyThe Three Rs - Repression, Rescue and Rehabilitation Ideologies of Control for Working-Class Youth - John ClarkeThe Government of a Generation - Peter RushThe Subject of Juvenile DelinquencyReforming the Juvenile - Heather ShoreGender, Justice and the Child Criminal in Nineteenth-Century EnglandPART THREE: POSITIVISM AND WELFARISMThe Triumph of Benevolence - Anthony PlattThe Origins of the Juvenile Justice System in the United StatesPenal Strategies in a Welfare State - David GarlandOn the Decriminalization of English Juvenile Courts - Anthony BottomsChildren′s Hearings and Children in Trouble - Janice McGhee, Lorraine Waterhouse and Bill WhyteRestorative Youth Jusitce - Loraine Gelsthorpe and Allison MorrisThe Last Vestiges of Welfare?PART FOUR: JUSTICE, DIVERSION AND RIGHTSWider, Stronger and Different Nets - James Austin and Barry KrisbergThe Dialectics of Criminal Justice ReformJustice, Retribution and Children - Stewart AsquithWhose Justice? The Politics of Juvenile Control - John Clarke`Troublesome Girls′ - Annie HudsonTowards Alternative Definitions and PoliciesChallenging the Criminalization of Children and Young People - Phil Scraton and Deena HaydonSecuring a Rights-based AgendaPART FIVE: DETENTION AND RETRIBUTIONFailure Never Matters - John MuncieDetention Centres and the Politics of DeterrenceThe Boot Camp and the Limits of Modern Penality - Jonathan SimonThe Reductionist Agenda - Andrew RutherfordThe Future of Imprisonment - Thomas MathiesenNew Punitiveness - Barry GoldsonThe Politics of Child IncarcerationPART SIX: RISK MANAGMENT AND PREVENTIONCorporatism - John PrattThe Third Model of Juvenile JusticeThe End of an Era - John PittsUnderstanding and Preventing Youth Crime - David FarringtonExpanding Realms of the New Penology - Kimberley Kempf-Leonard and Elicka PetersonThe Advent of Actuarial Justice for JuvenilesThe Contemporary Politics of Youth Crime Prevention - Tim Newburn

John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal. Eugene McLaughlin is Professor of Criminology and co-director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Research. He is also a member of the Centre for Law Justice and Journalism. He completed his postgraduate criminology studies at the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield. Eugene has held various academic appointments including at the University of Hong Kong, the Open University and the University of Southampton. He has also been Visiting Professor at the Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, the Department of Communication Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies. He is an associate editor of Crime, Media and Cultureand is on the editorial board of Criminal Justice Matters. He has served on the editorial boards of the British Journal of Criminology, Critical Social Policy, the Howard Journal of Criminal Justice and was co-editor of Theoretical Criminology.

`This is a valuable student text; carefully collated and with an abuntant array of material... and will surely become a widely used course reader. For the practitioner and general reader it is a book to dip into, a means to access debates and remind oneself of the ebb and flow of policy′ - Youth Justice`An excellent reader. It contains all the basic ingredients of a superb teaching book with the qualities of a thought-provoking text.... Should be required reading for all students of criminal justice policy and it will be a valuable teaching resource for all those involved in the delivery of courses on young people, justice and punishment′ - Punishment and Society

• Modes of Youth Governance - John Muncie and Gordon HughesPolitical Rationalities, Criminalization and ResistancePART ONE: FOLK DEVILS: CONSTRUCTIONS AND RECONSTRUCTIONS OF YOUTH AND CRIMEConstructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood - Harry HendrickAn Interpretative Survey, 1800 to the PresentYouth Crime and Moral Decline - Geoffrey PearsonPermissiveness and TraditionLesser Breeds Without the Law - Paul GilroyRethinking Moral Panic for Multi-Mediated Social Worlds - Angela McRobbie and Sarah ThorntonThe Vilification and Pleasures of Youthful Transgression - Keith HaywardPART TWO: THE ORIGINS OF YOUTH JUSTICEInnocence and Experience - Margaret MayThe Evolution of the Concept of Juvenile Delinquency in the Mid-Nineteenth CenturyThe Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth-Century England - Susan MagareyThe Three Rs - Repression, Rescue and Rehabilitation Ideologies of Control for Working-Class Youth - John ClarkeThe Government of a Generation - Peter RushThe Subject of Juvenile DelinquencyReforming the Juvenile - Heather ShoreGender, Justice and the Child Criminal in Nineteenth-Century EnglandPART THREE: POSITIVISM AND WELFARISMThe Triumph of Benevolence - Anthony PlattThe Origins of the Juvenile Justice System in the United StatesPenal Strategies in a Welfare State - David GarlandOn the Decriminalization of English Juvenile Courts - Anthony BottomsChildren′s Hearings and Children in Trouble - Janice McGhee, Lorraine Waterhouse and Bill WhyteRestorative Youth Jusitce - Loraine Gelsthorpe and Allison MorrisThe Last Vestiges of Welfare?PART FOUR: JUSTICE, DIVERSION AND RIGHTSWider, Stronger and Different Nets - James Austin and Barry KrisbergThe Dialectics of Criminal Justice ReformJustice, Retribution and Children - Stewart AsquithWhose Justice? The Politics of Juvenile Control - John Clarke`Troublesome Girls′ - Annie HudsonTowards Alternative Definitions and PoliciesChallenging the Criminalization of Children and Young People - Phil Scraton and Deena HaydonSecuring a Rights-based AgendaPART FIVE: DETENTION AND RETRIBUTIONFailure Never Matters - John MuncieDetention Centres and the Politics of DeterrenceThe Boot Camp and the Limits of Modern Penality - Jonathan SimonThe Reductionist Agenda - Andrew RutherfordThe Future of Imprisonment - Thomas MathiesenNew Punitiveness - Barry GoldsonThe Politics of Child IncarcerationPART SIX: RISK MANAGMENT AND PREVENTIONCorporatism - John PrattThe Third Model of Juvenile JusticeThe End of an Era - John PittsUnderstanding and Preventing Youth Crime - David FarringtonExpanding Realms of the New Penology - Kimberley Kempf-Leonard and Elicka PetersonThe Advent of Actuarial Justice for JuvenilesThe Contemporary Politics of Youth Crime Prevention - Tim Newburn