Negotiating Class in Youth Justice

This book examines how class shapes interactions between professionals, parents, and young people in the youth justice system, utilising a mix of contemporary social theory and a wealth of empirical material.

Jasmina Arnež is a research associate at the Centre for Criminology, University of Oxford, and a research fellow at the Institute for Criminology, University of Ljubljana. Her research interests relate to youth justice, crime and the family, inequality, and alternative responses to youth offending.

Contents: 1. Introduction; 2. Youth offending, parenting, and class; 3: The impact of class on professional interactions; 4. Determined by class? Differences in professional responses to children's behaviour and parenting; 5. Negotiated based on class? Similarities in professional responses to children's behaviour and parenting; 6. The origins of classed distortions in professional interactions; 7. The exacerbation of classed distortions in professional interactions: 8. Youth justice, class, and institutional constraints; 9. Conclusion: Towards a class-sensitive youth justice