The punitive transition in youth justice: reconstructing the child as offender

Case, S; Bateman, Tim

dc.contributor.author	Case, S	en
dc.contributor.author	Bateman, Tim	en
dc.date.accessioned	2020-03-31T12:24:40Z
dc.date.available	2020-03-31T12:24:40Z
dc.date.issued	2020-03-30
dc.identifier.citation	Case S, Bateman T (2020) 'The punitive transition in youth justice: reconstructing the child as offender', Children & Society, 34 (6), pp.475-491.	en
dc.identifier.issn	0951-0605
dc.identifier.doi	10.1111/chso.12379
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10547/623921
dc.description.abstract	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).
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Wiley	en
dc.rights	Yellow - can archive pre-print (ie pre-refereeing)
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/	*
dc.subject	children in conflict with the law	en
dc.subject	youth justice	en
dc.subject	transitions	en
dc.subject	punitive	en
dc.subject	offenderisation	en
dc.subject	young offenders	en
dc.subject	youth justice	en
dc.subject	L500 Social Work	en
dc.title	The punitive transition in youth justice: reconstructing the child as offender	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.identifier.journal	Children & Society	en
dc.date.updated	2020-03-31T11:00:13Z
dc.description.note	12m embargo
html.description.abstract	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).