Research Handbook on Youth Criminology

Edited by Greg Martin Professor of Criminology and Estrella Pearce, Lecturer in Criminology, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Sydney Australia

‘The editors of the Research Handbook on Youth Criminology are to be congratulated for bringing together a new work on youth justice. The Handbook shows the breadth and depth of current research. Global in its outlook and innovative in its selection of topics, this Handbook is highly recommended.’

• ContentsPART I INTRODUCTION1 Juvenile justice and youth governance: themes, trends and perspectives 2Estrella Pearce and Greg MartinPART II THEORIES AND CONCEPTS IN YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY2 Moral panic theory and child sexual abuse: relevance, applications, utility 31Francis Maxwell3 A popular criminology of youth justice 46Jessica Urwin4 The history and development of criminal responsibility of young people inChinese criminal law 61Xiaotong Li and Andra Le Roux-KempPART III METHODS OF RESEARCHING YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILEJUSTICE5 Participation in youth justice research: involving children in the telling oftheir own stories 75Kathy Hampson and Stephen Case6 Using the participatory approach of World Café with adaptions to capturecrime experiences and crime prevention solutions in the UK 94Sarah Page7 Doing car-based youth justice appointments during young people’smobility transitions 111Sarah Brooks-Wilson8 Methodological and ethical considerations in researching social mediaposts about drill music 127James AlexanderPART IV GEOGRAPHIES OF YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY9 The need to break the cycle: a profile of the girls placed in custody in theyouth justice system in Minas Gerais, Brazil 144Maria João Leote de Carvalho, Tatiana Maria Marques Tironi andLuciana Assis Costa10 ‘Contrasts in Tolerance’: on the benefits of a cross-sectoral approach toyouth penality 163Siobhán Buckley and Claire Hamilton11 Between compassion and repression: state agents governing vulnerableyouth in Brazil 181Sara Leon Spesny and Vagner dos SantosPART V INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS OF YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY ANDJUVENILE JUSTICE12 Addressing legacies of ‘care’ and criminalisation: responding to the deathsof crossover children and young people 198Rebecca Scott Bray13 Care-experienced and incarcerated: the perceptions of children in careabout their pathways into, through and out of custody 219Anne-Marie Day14 Rights respecting? Child custody in the United Kingdom 237Deena HaydonPART VI GOVERNANCE AROUND YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE15 Youth justice in peacebuilding contexts: barriers to justice for children inarmed violence in Colombia 258Tove Nyberg16 Penal populism and the decline of Nordic exceptionalism in Sweden 277Orlaith Rice, Silvia Gagliardi and Daniela Rodriguez GutierrezPART VII CURRENT ISSUES, FUTURE RESEARCH AND NEWDIRECTIONS IN YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY17 Australia’s push to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility: is 12years old enough? 298Estrella Pearce18 Advocating abolitionist views in juvenile legal systems: a critical reflectionof reformist practices from an abolitionist perspective 324Melanie Schorsch, Lisa Tölle and Jan TölleIndex 339