This 3 volume set of original (classic and contemporary) readings is designed to reveal how and why children and young people have been repeatedly the subject of adult concern, censure and intervention.

VOLUME 1: THE ′YOUTH PROBLEM′ Part One: The Sociology of Childhood and Youth Childhood in History - P. Thane Constructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: An interpretative survey, 1800 to the present - H. Hendrick The Origins of Adolescence - J. Springhall Childhood Matters: An introduction - J. Qvortrup The Sociological Child - A. James, C. Jenks, and A. Prout Part Two: The Discovery of Delinquency Report of Committee into Juvenile Delinquency (1816) The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth Century England - S. Magarey The Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England 1780-1840: Changing patterns of perception and prosecution - P. King The Idea of Juvenile Crime in 19th Century England - H. Shore Part Three: The Origins of Juvenile Justice Innocence and Experience: The evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century - M. May Criminal and Destitute Children (1853) - Select Committee Report The Triumph of Benevolence: The origins of the juvenile justice system in the United States - A. Platt Part Four: Representations and Realities Representations of the Young - C. Griffin Steal to survive: The social crime of working class children 1890-1940 - S. Humphries Delinquency and the Age Structure of Society - D. Greenberg Young People, Culture and the Construction of Crime: Doing wrong versus doing crime - M. Presdee VOLUME 2: JUVENILE CORRECTIONS Part Five: Welfare, Justice and Risk Management Children in Trouble - Home Office (1968) Wider, Stronger and Different Nets: The dialectics of criminal justice reform - J. Austin and B. Krisberg Corporatism: The third model of juvenile justice - J. Pratt Explaining and Preventing Crime: The globalisation of knowledge - D. Farrington Predicting Criminality?: Risk factors, neighbourhood influence and desistance - C. Webster, R. MacDonald and M. Simpson Restorative Justice for Juveniles: Just a technique or a fully fledged alternative? - L. Walgrave Part Six: Punitiveness Entitlement to Cruelty: The end of welfare and the punitive mentality in the United States - J. Simon Deadly symbiosis: When ghetto and prison meet and mesh - L. Wacquant Waiver and Juvenile Justice Reform: Widening the punitive net - A. Merlo, P. Benekos and W. Cook Taking Liberties: Policy and the punitive turn - B. Goldson Girls at Risk? Reflections on changing attitudes to young women′s offending - A. Worrall Part Seven: International and Comparative Youth Justice Trends in International Juvenile Justice: What conclusions can be drawn? - J. Junger-Tas The Globalization of Crime Control - the Case of Youth and Juvenile Justice: Neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions - J. Muncie Public Safety and the Management of Fear - R. Van Swaaningen Law and order as a Leftist Project?: The case of Sweden - H. Tham Conferencing in Australia and New Zealand: Variations, research findings and prospects - K. Daly Italy: A lesson in tolerance? - D. Nelken Youth Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Japan - M. Fenwick VOLUME 3: CHILDREN′S RIGHTS AND STATE RESPONSIBILITIES Part Eight: The International Human Rights Framework Convention on the Rights of the Child - United Nations General Assembly (1989) Resolution 60/231: Rights of the child - United Nations General Assembly (2006) General Comment No. 10: Children′s rights in juvenile justice - United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2007) Part Nine: Rights and Justice: Rhetoric and Reality International Human Rights Law: Imperialist, inept and ineffective? Cultural relativism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - S. Harris-Short Global Inequalities - H. Penn Justice as a Two-Way Street - D. Cook Juvenile Justice: The ′Unwanted Child′: Why the potential of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is not being realized, and what we can do about it - B. Abramson Juvenile Justice Rhetoric - J. Miller Part Ten: Abuses and Violations Expanding Realms of the New Penology: The advent of actuarial justice for juveniles - K. Kempf-Leonard and E. Peterson Challenging Girls′ Invisibility in Juvenile Court - M. Chesney-Lind The New Removals: Aboriginal youth in the Queensland juvenile justice system - I. O′Connor Shackled in the Land of Liberty: No rights for children - W. Mohr, R J. Gelles and I.M. Schwartz Fatal Injustice: Rampant punitiveness, child-prisoner deaths and institutionalised denial - a case for comprehensive independent inquiry in England and Wales - B. Goldson Part Eleven: Rethinking Juvenile Justice The Way Forward - P.S. Pinheiro Challenging the Criminalization of Children and Young People: Securing a rights-based agenda - P. Scraton and D. Haydon Youth Justice? The impact of system contact on patterns of desistance from offending - L. McAra and S. McVie Rethinking Youth Justice: Comparative analysis, international human rights and research evidence - B. Goldson and J. Muncie