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Professional Perspectives of Youth Justice Policy Implementation: Contextual and Coalface Challenges

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: This article offers a multilayered analysis of the subjective perspectives and experiences of key youth justice stakeholders; exploring the inherent dynamism, contradiction, non‐linearity, and contentiousness of youth justice policy implementation. We interrogate how professionals make sense and meaning of policy in the real world and how professional perspectives drive and shape their contributions to policy implementation nationally and locally. Contemporaneously, these analyses enable us to critically examine the caricatures, stereotypes, and assumptions that can (mis)inform common constructions, representations, and understandings of youth justice policy trajectories, including those relating to contextual stability, conceptual clarity, robust evidence bases, and purported foundations in stakeholder consensus.

Source: The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice

DOI: 10.1111/hojo.12366

Authors: STEPHEN CASE, JOHN DREW, KATHY HAMPSON, GARETH JONES, DUSTY KENNEDY

Institutions: Loughborough University, Prison Reform Trust, Aberystwyth University, Public Health Wales

Language: English

Topic: Criminal Justice and Penology

Subfield: Law

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $3,000