Julie Shaw

Residential Children's Homes and the Youth Justice System

Identity, Power and Perceptions

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the factors at the individual, institutional and systemic levels which contribute to children's home residents coming to the attention of the youth justice system, and the consequent implications for policy and practice. Perspectives are drawn from both young people and professionals in the care and youth justice systems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-45738-0
• 1st ed. 2014
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 263g
• ISBN-13: 9781349457380
• ISBN-10: 1349457388
• Artikelnr.: 45005812

Autorenporträt

Julie Shaw is a Research Fellow in the School of Social Work and Social Policy at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and has previously worked as a Probation Officer. She is co-author of Young People and the Care Experience: Research, Policy and Practice.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Developments and Experiences in Residential Care 2. Policy Context of Research 3. Introducing the Research Study: Theory and Method 4. Disempowerment, Responsibility and Difference 5. Solidarity, Conflict and the Residential Regime 6. Instability, Homogeneity and Isolation 7. 'Policing', Power and Perceptions 8. Key Findings and Implications for Policy and Practice