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Transforming Youth Justice: Occupational identity and cultural change
Inter-agency Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) were the cornerstone of New Labour's approach to the delivery of youth justice services. Transforming Youth Justice makes a highly significant contribution not only to the way that professional cultures are understood in criminal justice, but to an understanding of the often dissonant relationship between policy and practice.
| Author(s) | By Anna Souhami. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 230 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 1 Feb 2007 |
| Availability | Available |
Inter-agency Youth Offending Teams (YOTs) were the cornerstone of New Labour's approach to the delivery of youth justice services. Transforming Youth Justice makes a highly significant contribution not only to the way that professional cultures are understood in criminal justice, but to an understanding of the often dissonant relationship between policy and practice.
1. Transforming youth justice 2. Occupational cultures and criminal justice Part 1: The Youth Justice Team 3. Experiences and problems of team membership 4. Working in youth justice: social work and ambiguity 5. An unrepresentative representative: being
Anna Souhami is Lecturer in Criminology at the School of Law, Edinburgh University.
