Jo Phoenix – författare

Doing Youth Justice is a theoretically informed, empirical analysis of the ways in which information about the risks and needs of young people is used to create knowledge about 'young offenders', which in turn provides the rationale for particular interventions and constitutes specific young penal subjectivities. One of its main themes is 'risk thinking' in youth justice practice, its operationalisation and its effects The book's object of analysis is the interrelationship between discourses of risk, welfare, need, age and punishment in the production of youth justice. It demonstrates how the practise of youth justice produces the young penal subjects who are seen as being the appropriate subjects for penal intervention - occasionally as welfare, occasionally as a means of supporting families, often as the calibrated inflection of pain - punishment. The paradox of these constructions is that they are based on a recognition of the fractured lives of many of the young lawbreakers - young lives disrupted, often shattered by poverty, neglect, abuse, economic and educational marginalisation. This innovative and original book provides a sociologically contextualised analysis of how discourses of 'risk' and 'need' operate in practice and to what effect. In that sense, the book is an examination of policy made live. By focusing on how these discourses shape and inflect youth justice practice, the book provides timely evidence about youth justice practice at a time when substantial youth justice policies shifts are, once more, on the agenda.

Recent years have seen a 'quiet revolution' in the way that the sex industry is regulated and governed. The consensus around what the problems of prostitution are has broken down and in its place a plethora of contradictory themes has emerged. "Regulating sex for sale" examines the total package of reforms and proposals that have been introduced in this area since May 2000. Bringing together some of the most well-known writers, researchers and practitioners in the field, it provides a detailed analysis and critical reflection on the processes, assumptions and contradictions shaping the UK's emerging prostitution policy. What are the unintended consequences of recent policies and how do they impact on the populations that they regulate? Do they contain any possibility for radical intervention and/or new ways of governing prostitution? The book describes the impact these policies have on indoor sex workers, street-based sex workers, young people, men or those with drug misuse issues. It also looks at the assumptions made by policy makers about the various constituencies affected, including the communities in which sex work takes place. This is the first book to address the contradictions in current policy on prostitution in England and Wales and will be of interest to academics, postgraduate students and policy makers in criminal justice, as well as in other areas, including children and young people, community safety and urban studies.

Recent years have seen a 'quiet revolution' in the way that the sex industry is regulated and governed. The consensus around what the problems of prostitution are has broken down and in its place a plethora of contradictory themes has emerged. "Regulating sex for sale" examines the total package of reforms and proposals that have been introduced in this area since May 2000. Bringing together some of the most well-known writers, researchers and practitioners in the field, it provides a detailed analysis and critical reflection on the processes, assumptions and contradictions shaping the UK's emerging prostitution policy. What are the unintended consequences of recent policies and how do they impact on the populations that they regulate? Do they contain any possibility for radical intervention and/or new ways of governing prostitution? The book describes the impact these policies have on indoor sex workers, street-based sex workers, young people, men or those with drug misuse issues. It also looks at the assumptions made by policy makers about the various constituencies affected, including the communities in which sex work takes place. This is the first book to address the contradictions in current policy on prostitution in England and Wales and will be of interest to academics, postgraduate students and policy makers in criminal justice, as well as in other areas, including children and young people, community safety and urban studies.