Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong: Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship

by Michael Adorjan, Wing Hong Chui, Wing Hong Chui MR

Book Overview

A society's response to youth crime reveals much about its broader cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial periods, and in doing so, underscores the history of Hong Kong itself and its present-day circumstances.

Exploring how officials have responded to youth crime in Hong Kong over time,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415814111
• ISBN13: 9780415814119
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.1"