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David Garland's Punishment and Welfare (Aldershot: Gower, 1985) is the best history of the emergence of a separate youth justice system in Britain. The 1998 youth justice reforms cannot be fully appreciated without a reading of the two key documents, the Audit Commission's Misspent Youth (London: Audit Commission, 1996) and New Labour's subsequent White Paper, No More Excuses (London: Home Office, 1997), which informed the Crime and Disorder Act 1998. John Muncie's Youth and Crime (2nd edn, London: Sage, 2004) and Roger Smith's Youth Justice: Ideas, policy and practice (Cullompton, Devon: Willan, 2003) are the best general introductions to the recent history of the system. Michael Tonry and Anthony Doob's edited collection of essays, Youth Crime and Youth Justice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), contains authoritative accounts of juvenile justice provision in Great Britain, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany, and provides a useful comparative overview. Finally, the Youth Justice Board website—www.yjb.gov.uk—provides access to a large array of evaluative studies of current provision as well as national youth justice statistics.
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