Building on the strengths of earlier editions, Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia, 3rd Edition, provides a comprehensive introduction to juvenile justice. This revised and updated edition explores the dynamics of youth crime and the institutions of social control in Australia.

Student-friendly

• New chapter highlights help students to recognise the key issues
• Accessible writing style and format

• This new edition has increased discussion of media representations of youth
• Divided into three parts focusing on ‘History, Theory and Institutions', the ‘Social Dynamics of Juvenile Justice' and ‘The State, Punishment, and Community'.

Part 1: History, Theory and Institutions

1.        The Development of Juvenile Justice

2.        Theories of Juvenile Offending

3.        The Nature of Contemporary Juvenile Crime

4.        The Institutions of Juvenile Justice

Part 2: The Social Dynamics of Juvenile Justice

5.        Class and Community

6.        Indigenous Young People

7.        Ethnic Minority Young People

8.        Young Women, Young Men and Gender

Part 3: The State, Punishment and Community

9.        Policing the Young

10.     Courts and Sentencing Processes

11.     Detention and Community Corrections

12.     Youth Crime Prevention

13.     Restorative Justice and Juvenile Conferencing Bibliography Index

Chris Cunneen – NewSouth Global Professor of Criminology, University of New South Wales

Rob White – School of Sociology and Social Work, University of Tasmania