Includes bibliographical references and index.

Modes of youth governance : political rationalities, criminalization and resistance / John Muncie and Gordon Hughes -- Constructions and re constructions of British childhood : an interpretative survey, 1800 to the present / Harry Hendrick -- Youth crime and moral decline : permiss iveness and tradition / Geoffrey Pearson -- Lesser breeds without the l aw / Paul Gilroy -- Rethinking moral panic for multi-mediated social wo rlds / Angela McRobbie and Sarah Thornton -- The vilification and pleas ures of youthful transgression / Keith Hayward -- Innocence and experie nce : the evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-n ineteenth century / Margaret May -- The invention of juvenile delinquen cy in early nineteenth-century England / Susan Magarey -- The three Rs : repression, rescue and rehabilitation ideologies of control for worki ng-class youth / John Clarke --

The government of a generation : the subject of juvenile delinquency / Peter Rush -- Reforming the juvenile : gender, justice and the child criminal in nineteenth-century England / Heather Shore -- The triumph of benevolence : the origins of the juvenile justice system in the Unit ed States / Anthony Platt -- Penal strategies in a welfare state / Davi d Garland -- On the decriminalisation of English juvenile courts / Anth ony Bottoms -- Children's hearings and children in trouble / Janice McG hee, Lorraine Waterhouse and Bill Whyte -- Restorative youth justice : the last vestiges of welfare? / Loraine Gelsthorpe and Allison Morris - - Wider, stronger and different nets : the dialectics of criminal justi ce reform / James Austin and Barry Krisberg -- Justice, retribution and children / Stewart Asquith -- Whose justice? The politics of juvenile control / John Clarke --

'Troublesome girls' : towards alternative definitions and policies / Annie Hudson -- Challenging the criminalization of children and young people : securing a rights-based agenda / Phil Scranton and Deena Haydo n -- Failure never matters : detention centers and the politics of dete rrence / John Muncie -- The boot camp and the limits of modern penality / Jonathan Simon -- The reductionist agenda / Andrew Rutherford -- The future of imprisonment / Thomas Mathiesen -- New punitiveness : the po litics of child incarceration / Barry Goldson -- Corporatism : the thir d model of juvenile justice / John Pratt -- The end of an era / John Pi tts -- Understanding and preventing youth crime / David Farrington -- E xpanding realms of the new penology : the advent of actuarial justice f or juveniles / Kimberly Kempf-Leonard and Elicka Peterson -- The contem porary politics of youth crime prevention / Tim Newburn.