Recent publications

• Besemer, S., van der Geest, V., Murray, J., Bijleveld, C. and Farrington, D. (2011) ‘The Relationship Between Parental Imprisonment and Offspring Offending in England and The Netherlands’ Br J Criminol Vol 51,  413-437.

• Home Office (2011) An Overview of Recorded Crimes and Arrests Resulting from Disorder Events in August 2011. London, Home Office.

• Home Office (2011) More Effective Responses to Anti-Social Behaviour. London,Home Office.

• Mackenzie, S., Bannister, J., Flint, J., Parr, S., Millie A. and Fleetwood, J. (2010) The drivers of perceptions of anti-social behaviour, Research Report 34. London, Home Office.

• National Audit Office (2010) The youth justice system in England and Wales, Reducing offending by young people, Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, HC 663Session 2010–2011. London, The Stationery Office.

• Morrell, G. Scott, S., McNeish, D. and Webster, S. (2011) The August Riots in England, Understanding the Involvement of Young People. London, National Centre for Social Research.

• Silvestri, A. (ed) (2011) Lessons for the Coalition, an end of term report on New Labour and criminal justice. London, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.

Research reports

• Erica Bowen, May El Komy and Jon Heron (2008) Anti-social and other problem behaviours among young children: patterns and associated child characteristics Findings 282, Home Office, London http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/rf2008.html

• Erica Bowen, May El Komy and Colin Steer (2008) Characteristics associated with resilience in children at high risk of involvement in anti-social and other problem behaviour, Findings 283, Home Office, London. http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/rf2008.html

• Debbie Moon (Ed.), Alison Walker (Ed.), Rachel Murphy, John Flatley, Jenny Parfrement-Hopkins and Philip Hall  (2009) Perceptions of crime and anti-social behaviour: Findings from the 2008/09 British Crime Survey, Supplementary Volume 1 to Crime in England and Wales 2008/09, Home Office Statistical Bulletin, London: Home Office.

• Torbjørn Skarðhamar (2009) ‘Family Dissolution and Children's Criminal Careers’ European Journal of Criminology, Vol. 6, No. 3, 203-223.
  This study examines the relationship between family dissolution and children's crimes. The study uses a total population sample of a Norwegian birth cohort born in 1982 (N = 49,975) and follows them through the crime statistics from ages 10 to 22 years, applying growth curve modelling. Both married and cohabiting parents are considered. There is a large and significant effect from family dissolution that persists after controlling for important economic confounders, even though these also show a high and significant effect. This suggests that, although some of the effect of parental break-up is explained by socioeconomic conditions, there also seems to be an independent and strong effect of family dissolution.

International comparisons

• Commissioner for Human Rights (Thomas Hammarberg) (2009) Children and Juvenile Justice: Proposals for Improvements, CommDH/IssuePaper(2009)1, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France.
  This document can be downloaded from the COE website at
  https://wcd.coe.int/ViewDoc.jsp?id=1460021&Site=CommDH&BackColorInternet=FEC65B&BackColorIntranet=FEC65B&BackColorLogged=FFC679

• Davis-Barron, S. (2009) Canadian Youth and the Criminal Law – One Hundred Years of Youth Legislation in Canada. Lexis-Nexis Canada.

• Muncie, J. and Goldson, B. (eds) (2006) Comparative Youth Justice. London: Sage.

• Platt, A. (1977) The Child Savers, Chicago, University of Chicago Press.

Discipline and responsibility

• Crawford, A. (2009) ‘Governing Through Anti-social Behaviour: Regulatory Challenges to Criminal Justice’ Br J Criminol, 49, 810-831

• Mackenzie, S., Bannister, J.,  Flint, J., Parr, S., Millie A. and Fleetwood, J.(2010) The drivers of perceptions of anti-social behaviour, Research Report 34, Home Office, London.

• McAra, L. (2005) 'Modelling Penal Transformation' Punishment and Society Vol 7(3) 277-302. [In this article McAra uses recent Scottish developments in dealing with young offenders to argue that, whilst the elision of social inclusion, community safety and youth justice agendas - with resultant pressure for change - is occurring in Scotland as in the rest of the UK, the pressures have been mediated by localized political and cultural processes such that penal-welfare values continue. She also notes various other Scottish initiatives aimed at reducing youth crime as in England and Wales but concludes that 'None of these developments, however, would appear (to date) to have precipitated a seismic shift within the broader juvenile justice system (at p.287).]

• Muncie, J. (2006) 'Repenalisation and Rights: Explorations in Comparative Youth Criminology' The Howard Journal, Vol 45(1 ) 42-70.

• Roger, J. (2008) Criminalising Social Policy: Anti-Social Behaviour and Welfare in a De-Civilised Society, Cullompton: Willan.

Youth justice system

• Ball, C. (2004) '50th Anniversary Article: Youth Justice- half a century of responses to youth offending' Crim LR 167.

• Fionda, J. (2005) Devils and Angels: youth, policy and crime, Oxford: Hart Publishing.

• Goldson, B. and Muncie, J. (eds) (2006) Youth Crime and Justice London: Sage.

• Muncie, J.  (2011) ‘Illusions Of Difference: Comparative Youth Justice in the Devolved United Kingdom’  Br J Criminol Vol 51, 40-57

• Souhami, A. (2006) Transforming Youth Justice. Cullompton: Willan.

• Solomon, E., Eades, C., Garside, R. and Rutherford, M. (2008) Ten years of criminal justice under Labour, An independent audit, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Kings College London.
  This study examines progress against the targets set by the government and the Youth Justice Board to tackle youth offending since the reforms introduced in the 1998 Crime and Disorder Act. It argues that success has been far more mixed and ambiguous than the government often claims.

Moral panics

• British Journal of Criminology (2009) Vol. 49, Issue No. 1 is devoted to articles discussing moral panic theory (see, e.g., the chapter by Jock Young) and international applications of it.

• Waiton, S. (2008)  The Politics of Antisocial Behaviour: Amoral Panics. London: Routledge.

Offending by minors

• Audit Commission (1996) Misspent Youth: Young People and Crime. London, Audit Commission.

• Cops, D. and Pleysier, S. (2011) '”Doing Gender” in Fear of Crime: The Impact of Gender Identity on Reported Levels of Fear of Crime in Adolescents and Young Adults’ Br J Criminology vol 51: 58-74

• Farrington, D. (2002) 'Understanding and Preventing Crime' in Muncie. J., Hughes, G. and McLaughlin, E. (eds) Youth Justice, Critical Readings. London, Sage.

• Graham, J. and Bowling, B. (1995) Young People and Crime, Home Office Research Study 145. London, Home Office.

• Heilbrun, K. et al (2005) Juvenile Delinquency. Oxford, Oxford University Press.

• Home Office (2005) Juvenile Reconviction: results from the 2003 cohort, Home Office, Online Report 08/05.
  This report found that ‘Reconviction rates vary considerably by type of disposal but this is largely explained by differences in the characteristics of offenders given each disposal. … Those given pre-court disposals are generally at lower intrinsic risk of reoffending, whereas those given more severe court disposals, such as certain community penalties or immediate custody are more likely to be at high risk of reoffending. … The disposal with the highest actual reconviction rate in 2003 was the Curfew Order, with a rate of 75.4 per cent (p.7).

• NACRO (2010) ‘Some facts about children and young people who offend – 2008’ Youth Crime Briefing, April.

• Smith, D. and Ecob, R. (2007) ‘Am investigation into causal links between victimization and offending in Adolescents’ British Journal of Criminology vol 58(4) pp 633-659.

• Theobald, D. and Farrington, D. (2011) ‘Why do the Crime-reducing Effects of Marriage Vary with Age?’ Br J Criminology vol 51: 136-158

• YJB (2009) Girls and Offending - Patterns, Perceptions and Interventions (YJB: London)

Welfare v justice

• Dingwall, R., Eekelaar, J. and Murray, T. (1984) `Childhood as a Social problem: A Survey of the History of Legal Regulation' Journal of Law and Society Vol 11(2) 207.

• European Research on Youth - Supporting young people to participate fully in society - The contribution of European Research
  Brussels, 2009, EUR 23863.
  
  This publication examines the results of youth-related socio-economic research projects funded under Research Framework Programmes. This review of projects focused on youth and how to best ensure their transition into working life, on strategies for social inclusion of young people and on their full participation as citizens in society. Its main purpose is to distil some common themes which recur in the projects and which are of interest to policy-makers. On the basis of this evidence, concrete recommendations are made to policy-makers as well as to those working with young people.
  http://ec.europa.eu/research/social-sciences/pdf/policy-review-youth_en.pdf

• HM Government (2005) Statutory guidance on inter-agency co-operation to improve the wellbeing of children: children's trusts, London: DfES.

• Home Office (2005) Change for Children in the Criminal Justice System, London: Home Office. [The five outcomes for children specified in the Every Child Matters policy paper and then included in the Children Act 2004 (section 10) are outcomes to which all agencies dealing with children must work. These outcomes are:

  1. Be healthy

  2. Stay safe

  3. Enjoy and achieve

  4. Make a positive contribution

  5. Achieve economic well-being'

  The Change for Children in the Criminal Justice System document discusses the response of the Criminal Justice System (CJS) to these new multi-agency aims. It states that the 'key focus' of the CJS is on the 2nd and 4th of these outcomes, with offending being contrasted with a 'positive contribution' being made by the young person now or in the future.]

• NACRO (2008) Some facts about young people who offend - 2006, Youth Crime Briefing. London, NACRO.

• Piper, C. (1999) 'Moral Campaigns for Children's Welfare in the 19th Century' in M. King (ed.) Moral Agendas for Children's Welfare. London,Routledge.

• Respect Task Force (2007) Tools and powers to tackle anti-social behaviour, London: Home Office. [A report of research on the use of parenting contracts and acceptable anti-social behaviour contracts and agreements as well as anti-social behaviour and parenting orders. For the growth in the use of these orders, see: http://www.respect.gov.uk/uploadedFiles/Members_site/Articles/Resources/Research_and_statistics/CDRP%20survey%20results%20Jan%2007.pdf]

• Smith, D. (2006) Social Inclusion and Early Desistance From Crime Report No. 12 (Edinburgh: Centre for Law and Society, The University of Edinburgh.

• Waterhouse, L., McGhee, J. and Loucks, N. (2004) 'Disentangling Offenders and Non-Offenders in the Scottish Children's Hearings: A Clear Divide?' Howard Journal Vol 43(2) 164-179.

Restorative justice initiatives for minors

• Crawford, A. and Newburn, T. (2003) Youth Offending and Restorative Justice. Cullompton, Willan Publishing.

• Fox, D., Dhami, M.K. and Mantle, G. (2006) 'Restorative Justice and Final Warnings' The Howard Journal Vol 45(2) 129-140.

• Wilcox, A., Young, R. and Hoyle, C. (2004) An evaluation of the impact of restorative cautioning: findings from a reconviction study, Home Office Findings 255. London, Home Office.