This article reviews current social policy and penal policy responses to risk, with particular
attention to how policies of responsibilization have implications for rights leading to an …

This paper is concerned with exploring how in late modernity the 'youth question'is being
addressed by public policy and what impact this is having on understandings of childhood …

A prevention framework represents one of the fundamental means of the Australian
Government's contemporary drive to achieve permanent reductions in homelessness …

British criminology has always had a strong welfarist tradition. It is a tradition that advocates
the 'welfare state solution', the expansion of social policy as the primary response to crime …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the benefits of participation for young
offenders. It also explores some of the challenges giving young people “a say” …

Despite broad scholarship documenting the compounding effects and self-reproducing
character of incarceration, ways of conceptualising imprisonment and the post-prison …

In England, alternative education (AE) is offered to young people formally excluded from
school, close to formal exclusion or who have been informally pushed to the educational …

Research has suggested that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) young people
are “at-risk” of victimization and/or legally “risky.” Relatively few studies have examined the …

This review of current research into at‐risk programmes serves to categorise and
characterise existing programmes and to evaluate the contribution of these programmes to …

The high rates of child incarceration that have characterized the youth justice system in
England and Wales for almost two decades are frequently attributed to the impact of a …