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John Muncie 
Youth and Crime 

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The most comprehensive and authoritative textbook on youth crime and youth justice.

Extensively updated to reflect changes in the youth justice system and contemporary debates around youth crime, this fifth edition of Youth and Crime:



  • Includes new chapters on developmental and life course theories, and punitive justice strategies.

  • Has been significantly expanded with new sections on the politicisation of youth crime, knife crime and gangs, child refugees, climate justice, child-on-child homicide, and localised criminal exploitation.

  • Features increased coverage of policing strategies, including sections on policing public space and rethinking youth justice.


Complete with a new two colour design, chapter outlines, summary boxes, study questions, further reading lists,  useful website lists,  and a glossary, this textbook expertly guides students through their studies in youth and crime.

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Table of Content

Chapter 1: Images of Youth and Crime

Chapter 2: Histories of Youth and Crime

Chapter 3: Explaining Youth Crime I: Positivist Criminologies

Chapter 4: Explaining Youth Crime II: Developmental and Life Course Theories

Chapter 5: Explaining Youth Crime III: Radical and Realist Criminologies

Chapter 6: Youth Victimology

Chapter 7: Youth Cultures, Cultural Studies and Cultural Criminology

Chapter 8: Youth and Social Policy: Control, Regulation and Governance

Chapter 9: Youth Justice Strategies I: Welfare and Justice

Chapter 10: Youth Justice Strategies II: Policing, Prevention and Risk Management

Chapter 11: Youth Justice Strategies III: Custody, Punishment and Rights

Chapter 12: Comparative and International Youth Justice

About the author

John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 592 ● ISBN 9781529756982 ● File size 4.2 MB ● Publisher SAGE Publications ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2021 ● Edition 5 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8123158 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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