Youth Justice brings together for the first time the most influential international contributors to the emergent field of youth justice studies. Youth Justice provides a critical introduction to the intellectual reframing of the history, theory, policy and practice of youth justice. An essential resource of key debates and controversies from across the range of disciplines engaged in the study of youth in the social sciences Contained are editorial essays at the beginning of each substantive section of the volume Youth Justice is the set text for D864 'Youth justice, penality and social control' at the Open University