Youth Justice
Overview
- Credit value: 30 credits at Level 7
- Convenor: Amy Kirby
- Assessment: a 4000-word essay (100%)
Module description
This module provides you with a critical overview of the broad themes and key debates within contemporary youth justice in policy and practice. It explores issues of youth justice through historical, socio-legal and theoretical perspectives as well as through a set of contemporary debates.
Indicative module syllabus
- ‘Angels vs Demons’: conceptualising childhood, youth and crime
- Assessing the international landscape of youth justice
- Welfare and justice
- Risk and diverson
- Restorative justice and positive youth justice
- Intersectionality and youth justice
- Youth justice and the courts
- Young people and the use of custody
- Joint enterprise: implications for youth justice
- Final thoughts and essay-writing clinic
Learning objectives
By the end of this module, you will have:
- examined a range of theoretical and philosophical approaches to youth justice
- explored the history, current legislative framework and policy context of the youth justice system in England and Wales
- situated the youth justice debate and broader policy and legislative frameworks within an international context
- explored the intersection between race, gender and socio-economic status in youth justice policy and practice
- considered contemporary issues in youth justice policy and practice.