Rougher justice : anti-social behaviour and young people / Peter Squires and Dawn E. Stephen.

By:

Squires, Peter, 1958-

Contributor(s):

Stephen, Dawn E

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cullompton : Willan, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (x, 238 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781134043194
1134043198
9781843926702
1843926709
1282237942
9781282237940
9786612237942
6612237945

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rougher justice.DDC classification:

364.36 22

LOC classification:

HV9069 .S745 2005eb

Other classification:

71.64

Online resources:

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Contents:

1. The new politics of behaviour : anti-social behaviour as a contested terrain -- 2. The irresistible rise of anti-social behaviour -- 3. The secret history of anti-social behaviour? -- 4. Making links or breaking links? : ASB and the new youth justice -- 5. The enforcement of acceptable behaviour -- 6. Nipped in the bud -- youthful transitions or criminal careers? -- 7. Anti-social behaviour, social control and the precautionary principle : new views 'from the boys'.

Review: "Anti-social behaviour has, seemingly very quickly, become society's top 'crime and disorder' problem. Recent proposals for 'naming and shaming' young offenders appear to strike a popular chord in many areas. But where has this preoccupation with anti-social behaviour come from? What fears and concerns drive it? What action is the government actually taking and what are the likely consequences?"Summary: "This book comprises a critical evaluation of this recent preoccupation with anti-social behaviour. It explores the origins of contemporary discourses and how they have often related to concerns about the behaviour of young people. Anti-social behaviour is examined in the context of the youth justice strategy evolving from the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. The authors show how a new 'politics of behaviour' connects with recent discourses on 'responsibilisation' and the 'dispersal of discipline' to extend enforcement and criminalisation processes impacting disproportionately upon marginalised young people."Summary: "The book draws upon the authors' own research on public perceptions of anti-social behaviour, on the manufactured onset of youthful criminal careers and upon the policing of acceptable behaviour, in order to develop and illustrate the arguments of the book. It concludes by suggesting that anti-social behaviour marks the leading edge of a new strategy of 'precautionary injustice' in British crime and disorder management."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Anti-social behaviour has, seemingly very quickly, become society's top 'crime and disorder' problem. Recent proposals for 'naming and shaming' young offenders appear to strike a popular chord in many areas. But where has this preoccupation with anti-social behaviour come from? What fears and concerns drive it? What action is the government actually taking and what are the likely consequences?"

"This book comprises a critical evaluation of this recent preoccupation with anti-social behaviour. It explores the origins of contemporary discourses and how they have often related to concerns about the behaviour of young people. Anti-social behaviour is examined in the context of the youth justice strategy evolving from the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. The authors show how a new 'politics of behaviour' connects with recent discourses on 'responsibilisation' and the 'dispersal of discipline' to extend enforcement and criminalisation processes impacting disproportionately upon marginalised young people."

"The book draws upon the authors' own research on public perceptions of anti-social behaviour, on the manufactured onset of youthful criminal careers and upon the policing of acceptable behaviour, in order to develop and illustrate the arguments of the book. It concludes by suggesting that anti-social behaviour marks the leading edge of a new strategy of 'precautionary injustice' in British crime and disorder management."--Jacket