Policing youth: Britain, 1945-70

by Angela Bartie and Louise A. Jackson

Policing youth probes beneath the media sensationalism surrounding youth crime in order to evaluate the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change. The work of state representatives - the police, magistrates and probation officers - is mapped alongside discipline within families, neighbourhoods, schools and churches as well as the growing commercial sector of retail and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719081785
• ISBN13: 9780719081781
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"