Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Youth justice policy making has been conceptualised as a reductionist, linear and decontextualised process dominated by governmental actors producing static policy ‘products’. However, semi-structured interviews with a range of expert policy actors illuminated youth justice policy-making (YJPM) as a complex, dynamic social construction shaped through relationships across professional contexts. Analyses discerned coherence from chaos in YJPM contexts characterised by simultaneous stability-change, conflict-ambivalence, short-termism and precarity. YJPM contexts were constructed and experienced by experts working in governmental and non-governmental contexts as the relational and dynamic features shaping the mechanisms through which policies are made and operate over time at multiple different levels of the social system.
Source: Youth Justice
Author: Stephen Case
Institution: Loughborough University
Language: English
Subfield: Law
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $3,650
OpenAlex ID: W4408042324