Young People and Social Control

Ross Deuchar is Assistant Dean (Research, Enterprise and International) in the School of Education and Director of the Interdisciplinary Research Unit on Crime, Policing and Social Justice within the University of the West of Scotland.  Kalwant Bhopal is Professor of Education and Social Justice in the Centre for Research in Race and Education, University of Birmingham, UK.

• PART I: Problems from the Margins: Young People, Social Control and Injustice.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Young People, Marginality and Social Control.- Chapter 2. Schools, Discipline, Racism and Disaffection.- Chapter 3. Employment, Discrimination and Stigmatising Discourses.- Chapter 4. Young People, Police Officers and the Barriers to Enacting Procedural Justice.- Chapter 5. The Judiciary, System Processing and Youth (In-)Justice.- PART II: Prospects from the Margins: Border-Crossing, Assets Generation and Emancipatory Practice.- Chapter 6. Assets-Based, Border-Crossing Approaches to Facilitate Youth Engagement.- Chapter 7. Emancipatory Approaches to Judicial and Penal Practices.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The Future for Young People and Social Control.