Hester, Richard and Yates, Joe
(2009).
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Abstract
The 'truth' about youth justice, or put another way, knowledge about youth justice in England and Wales, remains highly contested between a number of competing perspectives: Those who would advocate a non-critical acceptance of the highly contentious 'evidence base' underpinning the 'what works philosophy' in order to attain more effectiveness, and those who adopt a more critical perspective on how power has impacted on the process by which knowledge has been mobilised to legitimate policy and practice in the 'new' youth justice. However, this contest between these 'positions' is no mere 'academic' debate between nostalgic 'idealist' academics on the one hand, and pragmatic politicians, on the other.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
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| Copyright Holders: | 2009 Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik |
| ISBN: | 953-99765-1-0, 978-953-99765-1-2 |
| Academic Unit/Department: | Health and Social Care > Health and Social Care |
| Interdisciplinary Research Centre: | International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research (ICCCR) |
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| Item ID: | 25720 |
| Depositing User: | Richard Hester |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2010 15:12 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Oct 2012 03:24 |
| URI: | http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/25720 |
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