Rationale
Youth justice is a contested subject both as practice and as an area of academic study. This module facilitates an examination of youth crime from multidisciplinary perspectives. It evaluates the association between young people and crime from historical, sociological and legal perspectives. Students are exposed to the various ways in which social constructions of youth and crime shape criminal justice policy and systems. Selected substantive themes will be explored, and cover procedures, policies and social challenges. Though the frame of reference will be the United Kingdom, there will significant comparative analysis.