John Muncie

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine why and to what extent ''American exceptionalism'' might be permeating European nation states, based on international research on juvenile custody rates and children's rights compliance in the USA and Western Europe.

TL;DR: The authors assesses the extent to which a combination of neo-liberal assaults on the social logics of the welfare state and public provision, widespread experimentation with restorative justice and the prospect of rehabilitation through mediation and widely ratified international directives, epitomized by the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, have now made it possible to talk of a global juvenile/youth justice.

TL;DR: The Sage Dictionary of Criminology as discussed by the authors is a collection of articles from the first and second editions of the Dictionary of Criminal and Sexual Behavior (Dictionary of Criminal Behavior, 1998).

TL;DR: The Threat of Youth The Extent of Offending and Victimization Patterns of Offend and Non-Offending The 'Youth'-'Crime' Connection as discussed by the authors The 'Invention' of Childhood and Youth Discovering Juvenile Delinquency Troublesome Adolescence The Consolidation of the 'Your Problem'

TL;DR: This article explored the burgeoning literature on modes and layers of governance and applied it to the complex of contemporary youth justice reform and found that any coherence within contemporary youth criminal justice relies on continual negotiations between opposing, yet overlapping, discursive practices.