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Research Handbook on Youth Criminology

Author: Greg Martin; Estrella Pearce
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035300747
Published In: September 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This timely Handbook provides historical, contemporary, theoretical and methodological perspectives on youth criminology. It explores cutting-edge research on juvenile justice and youth governance and proposes directions for future research.

Bringing together a diverse range of international experts, the Handbook emphasises the hybrid nature of youth justice governance, highlighting ongoing debates over prioritising human rights, welfare, justice, or risk management. The chapters explore trends in youth criminology drawing on empirical data from a variety of geographical and institutional contexts of juvenile justice. Key topics include the care and criminalisation of institutionalised children, moral panic theory and its relevance to child sexual abuse, the criminal responsibility of young people in Australia and China, and the experiences of girls in custody in the Brazilian youth justice system. They also discuss the involvement of children in armed conflicts across different jurisdictions, and present reformist perspectives on juvenile legal systems, including reflections on the minimum age of criminal responsibility and abolitionist debates.

Providing global insights, case studies and real-life examples, the Research Handbook on Youth Criminology will be an invaluable resource for university students and academic researchers in sociology and criminology, as well as practitioners and policymakers working in juvenile justice and youth governance.

PART I INTRODUCTION

Juvenile justice and youth governance: themes, trends and perspectives 2

Estrella Pearce and Greg Martin

PART II THEORIES AND CONCEPTS IN YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY

Moral panic theory and child sexual abuse: relevance, applications, utility 31

Francis Maxwell

A popular criminology of youth justice 46

Jessica Urwin

The history and development of criminal responsibility of young people in Chinese criminal law 61

Xiaotong Li and Andra Le Roux-Kemp

PART III METHODS OF RESEARCHING YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE

Participation in youth justice research: involving children in the telling of their own stories 75

Kathy Hampson and Stephen Case

Using the participatory approach of World Café with adaptions to capture crime experiences and crime prevention solutions in the UK 94

Sarah Page

Doing car-based youth justice appointments during young people’s mobility transitions 111

Sarah Brooks-Wilson

Methodological and ethical considerations in researching social media posts about drill music 127

James Alexander

PART IV GEOGRAPHIES OF YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY

The need to break the cycle: a profile of the girls placed in custody in the youth justice system in Minas Gerais, Brazil 144

Maria João Leote de Carvalho, Tatiana Maria Marques Tironi and Luciana Assis Costa

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‘Contrasts in Tolerance’: on the benefits of a cross-sectoral approach to youth penality 163

Siobhán Buckley and Claire Hamilton

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Between compassion and repression: state agents governing vulnerable youth in Brazil 181

Sara Leon Spesny and Vagner dos Santos

PART V INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXTS OF YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY AND JUVENILE JUSTICE

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Addressing legacies of ‘care’ and criminalisation: responding to the deaths of crossover children and young people 198

Rebecca Scott Bray

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Care-experienced and incarcerated: the perceptions of children in care about their pathways into, through and out of custody 219

Anne-Marie Day

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Rights respecting? Child custody in the United Kingdom 237

Deena Haydon

PART VI GOVERNANCE AROUND YOUTH CRIME AND JUVENILE JUSTICE

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Youth justice in peacebuilding contexts: barriers to justice for children in armed violence in Colombia 258

Tove Nyberg

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Penal populism and the decline of Nordic exceptionalism in Sweden 277

Orlaith Rice, Silvia Gagliardi and Daniela Rodriguez Gutierrez

PART VII CURRENT ISSUES, FUTURE RESEARCH AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN YOUTH CRIMINOLOGY

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Australia’s push to raise the minimum age of criminal responsibility: is 12-years old enough? 298

Estrella Pearce

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Advocating abolitionist views in juvenile legal systems: a critical reflection of reformist practices from an abolitionist perspective 324

Melanie Schorsch, Lisa Tölle and Jan Tölle

Index 339

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