The punitive transition in youth justice: reconstructing the child as offender
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2020-03-30Subjects
children in conflict with the lawyouth justice
transitions
punitive
offenderisation
young offenders
youth justice
L500 Social Work
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The transition from ‘child’ to ‘offender’ status can be fasttracked when offending is formally recognised through formal disposal, with children treated increasing punitively as they progress through the Youth Justice System. The status and ‘offenderising’ transitions of children who offend is socio-historically contingent, not only on their behaviour, but on political, socio-economic, societal, systemic and demography. We support this perspective through a periodised re-examination of four socio-historical trajectories in the construction of the ‘youth offender’: conflict, ambivalence and bifurcation (1908-1979); depenalising diversion and back to justice (1980-1992), fast-tracking the child to offender transition (1993-2007) and tentative depenalisation (2008 to present).Citation
Case S, Bateman T (2020) 'The punitive transition in youth justice: reconstructing the child as offender', Children & Society, 34 (6), pp.475-491.Publisher
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0951-0605ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1111/chso.12379
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