Youth and Crime Book

1	Youth crime : representations, discourses and data	1
1.1	The threat of youth	3
1.2	The extent of offending and victimization	14
1.3	Patterns of offending and non-offending	25
1.4	The 'youth' - 'crime' connection	39
2	Histories of youth crime : the deprived and the depraved	49
2.1	The social construction of childhood and youth	53
2.2	Discovering juvenile delinquency	55
2.3	Troublesome adolescence	67
2.4	The consolidation of the 'youth problem'	77
3	Explaining youth crime I : positivist criminologies	83
3.1	Individual positivism	85
3.2	Sociological positivism	98
4	Explaining youth crime II : radical and realist criminologies	113
4.1	Radical criminologies	115
4.2	Realist criminologies	132
4.3	Beyond criminology?	145
5	Cultural studies and cultural criminology : youth cultures, gangs and subcultures	153
5.1	Subcultural theory and analysis	156
5.2	Subcultures and resistance	166
5.3	Countercultures and dissent	174
5.4	Developments in youth cultural studies	182
5.5	Cultural criminology : explorations in transgression, consumerism and the criminalization of style	195
6	Youth and social policy : control, regulation and governance	205
6.1	Theorizing control, regulation and governance	207
6.2	Youth training and the labour market	216
6.3	Homelessness and the housing market	225
6.4	Policing, prevention and social exclusion	229
7	Youth justice strategies : compromise and contradiction	247
7.1	Welfare	250
7.2	Justice	259
7.3	Risk management	271
7.4	Authoritarianism	282
7.5	Comparative youth justice	295