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Drake, Deborah H.; Fergusson, Ross and Briggs, Damon B. (2014). Hearing new voices: re-viewing youth justice policy through practitioners’ relationships with young people. Youth Justice, 14(1) pp. 22–39.

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Fergusson, Ross (2021). Young People, Antisocial Behavior and Unemployment: Toward a Trans-Disciplinary Analysis of Criminalization. Critical Criminology, 30 pp. 349–364.

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Fergusson, Ross and Yeates, Nicola (2021). Global Youth Unemployment: History, Governance and Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.

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Fergusson, Ross (2018). Critical reflection and review. In: Cooper, V. and Phoenix, J. eds. Criminological Theories and Concepts: Book Two. Milton Keynes: The Open University.

Fergusson, Ross (2016). Young people, welfare and crime: governing non-participation. Bristol, UK: Policy Press.

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Fergusson, Ross (2015). Is there a link between youth poverty and crime? The answers may surprise you.

Fergusson, Ross and Yeates, Nicola (2014). International governmental organisations and global youth unemployment: the normative and ideational foundations of policy discourses. Policy & Politics, 42(3) pp. 439–458.

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Fergusson, Ross (2014). ‘Warehouse, commodify, shelter, juridify: on the political economy and governance of extending school participation in England’. In: Farnsworth, Kevin; Irving, Zoë and Fenger, Menno eds. Analysis and debate in social policy, 2014. Social Policy Review (26). Bristol: The Policy Press, pp. 47–64.

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Fergusson, Ross (2014). Regulate or abandon: two-speed tracks to criminalising precarious youth. Criminal Justice Matters, 96(1) pp. 18–19.

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Fergusson, Ross (2013). Risk, responsibilities and rights: reassessing the ‘economic causes of crime’ thesis in a recession. Youth Justice, 13(1) pp. 31–56.

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Fergusson, Ross (2013). Against disengagement: non-participation as an object of governance. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 18(1-2) pp. 12–28.

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Fergusson, Ross and Yeates, Nicola (2013). ‘Business, as usual: the policy priorities of the World Bank's discourses on youth unemployment, and the global financial crisis'. Journal of International and Comparative Social Policy, 29(1) pp. 64–78.

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Fergusson, R. and Muncie, J. (2009). Conflict resolution and alternative justice. In: Drake, D.; Muncie, J. and Westmarland, L. eds. Justice: local and global. Cullhompton: Willan.

Fergusson, R. and Muncie, J. (2008). Criminalising Conduct. In: Cochrane, A. and Talbot, D. eds. Security: crime and social policy. London: Palgrave.

Fergusson, Ross (2007). Making sense of the melting pot: multiple discourses in youth justice policy. Youth Justice, 73(3) pp. 179–194.

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Fergusson, Ross (2007). “Disappearing” discrimination? The New Deal, ethnicity and the limits of policy evaluation. Youth and Policy(96) pp. 65–85.

Fergusson, Ross (2004). Discourses of exclusion: reconceptualising participation amongst young people. Journal of Social Policy, 33(2) pp. 289–320.

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Fergusson, R. (2004). Remaking the relations of welfare and work. In: Mooney, G. ed. Work: personal lives and social policy. Bristol: Policy Press / The Open University.

Fergusson, Ross (2002). Rethinking Youth Transitions: Policy Transfer and New Exclusions in New Labour's New Deal. Policy Studies, 23(3) pp. 173–190.

Fergusson, Ross; Pye, David; Esland, Geoff; McLaughlin, Eugene and Muncie, John (2000). Normalized dislocation and new subjectivities in post-16 markets for education and work. Critical Social Policy, 20(3) pp. 283–305.

Fergusson, R. (2000). Modernising Managerialism in Education. In: Clarke, J.; Gewirtz, S. and McLaughlin, J. E. eds. New Managerialism, New Welfare? London: SAGE / The Open University.

Fergusson, R. and Hughes, G. (2000). Welfare: from Security to Responsibility. In: Hughes, G. and Fergusson, R. eds. Ordering Lives: Family, Work and Welfare. London: Routledge / The Open University.

Fergusson, R. (1998). Choice, selection and the social construction of difference: restructuring schooling. In: Hughes, G. and Lewis, G. eds. Unsettling Welfare. London: Routledge / The Open University.

Fergusson, Ross and Unwin, Lorna (1996). Making better sense of post‐16 destinations: a case study of an English shire county. Research Papers in Education, 11(1) pp. 53–80.

Fergusson, Ross (1994). Managerialism in education. In: Clarke, John; Cochrane, Allan and McLaughlin, Eugene eds. Managing Social Policy. London: SAGE.

Fergusson, R. and Mardle, G. (1981). Education and the Political economy of Leisure. In: Dale, R.; Esland, G.; Fergusson, R. and MacDonald, M. eds. Education and the State (Volume 2): Politics, Patriarchy and Practice. Falmer Press.