◎ Contents CHAPTER 1 YOUTH CRIME : REPRESENTATIONS, DISCOURSES AND DATA 1.1 The Threat of Youth 1.2 The Extent of Offending and Victimization 1.3 Patterns of Offending and Non-Offending 1.4 The 'Youth' - 'Crime' Connection CHAPTER 2 HISTORIES OF YOUTH CRIME : THE DEPRIVED AND THE DEPRAVED 2.1 The 'Invention' of Childhood and Youth 2.2 Discovering Juvenile Delinquency 2.3 Troublesome Adolescence 2.4 The consolidation of the 'Youth Problem' CHAPTER 3 EXPLAINING YOUTH CRIME I : POSITIVIST CRIMINOLOGIES 3.1 Individual Positivism 3.2 Sociological Positivism CHAPTER 4 EXPLAINING YOUTH CRIME II : RADICAL AND REALIST CRIMINOLOGIES 4.1 Racial Criminologies 4.2 Realist Criminologies 4.3 Beyond Criminology? CHAPTER 5 YOUTH CULTURES, GANGS AND SUBCULTURES : RESISTANCE AND DISSENT 5.1 Subcultural Theory and Analysis 5.2 Subscultures and Resistance 5.3 countercultures and Dissent 5.4 The Critique of Subcultural Analysis 5.5 Post Subcultural Style... Cultural Production... CHAPTER 6 YOUTH AND SOCIAL POLICY : REGUALTION AND CONTROL 6.1 Theorizing Social control and Youth Regulation 6.2 Youth Training and the Labour Market 6.3 Homelessness and the Housing Market 6.4 Public Space, Policing and Surveillance 6.5 Social Crime Prevention CHAPTER 7 YOUTH JUSTICE POLICY : WELFARE AND PUNISHMENT 7.1 Welfare 7.2 Justice 7.3. Diversion and Community Corrections 7.4 Custody ◎ ABSTRACT This interactive textbook introduces basic aspects of youth research and criminology to students. Each chapter includes: a focus on substantive topics with emphasis on the importance of historical, feminist and comparative perspectives, and a summary of the main arguments with study questions.