John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.

• VOLUME 1: THE ′YOUTH PROBLEM′Part One: The Sociology of Childhood and YouthChildhood in History - P. ThaneConstructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: An interpretative survey, 1800 to the present - H. HendrickThe Origins of Adolescence - J. SpringhallChildhood Matters: An introduction - J. QvortrupThe Sociological Child - A. James, C. Jenks, and A. ProutPart Two: The Discovery of DelinquencyReport of Committee into Juvenile Delinquency (1816)The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth Century England - S. MagareyThe Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England 1780-1840: Changing patterns of perception and prosecution - P. KingThe Idea of Juvenile Crime in 19th Century England - H. ShorePart Three: The Origins of Juvenile JusticeInnocence and Experience: The evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century - M. MayCriminal and Destitute Children (1853) - Select Committee Report The Triumph of Benevolence: The origins of the juvenile justice system in the United States - A. PlattPart Four: Representations and RealitiesRepresentations of the Young - C. GriffinSteal to survive: The social crime of working class children 1890-1940 - S. HumphriesDelinquency and the Age Structure of Society - D. GreenbergYoung People, Culture and the Construction of Crime: Doing wrong versus doing crime - M. PresdeeVOLUME 2: JUVENILE CORRECTIONSPart Five: Welfare, Justice and Risk ManagementChildren in Trouble - Home Office (1968)Wider, Stronger and Different Nets: The dialectics of criminal justice reform - J. Austin and B. KrisbergCorporatism: The third model of juvenile justice - J. PrattExplaining and Preventing Crime: The globalisation of knowledge - D. FarringtonPredicting Criminality?: Risk factors, neighbourhood influence and desistance - C. Webster, R. MacDonald and M. SimpsonRestorative Justice for Juveniles: Just a technique or a fully fledged alternative? - L. WalgravePart Six: PunitivenessEntitlement to Cruelty: The end of welfare and the punitive mentality in the United States - J. SimonDeadly symbiosis: When ghetto and prison meet and mesh - L. WacquantWaiver and Juvenile Justice Reform: Widening the punitive net - A. Merlo, P. Benekos and W. CookTaking Liberties: Policy and the punitive turn - B. GoldsonGirls at Risk? Reflections on changing attitudes to young women′s offending - A. WorrallPart Seven: International and Comparative Youth JusticeTrends in International Juvenile Justice: What conclusions can be drawn? - J. Junger-TasThe Globalization of Crime Control - the Case of Youth and Juvenile Justice: Neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions - J. MunciePublic Safety and the Management of Fear - R. Van SwaaningenLaw and order as a Leftist Project?: The case of Sweden - H. ThamConferencing in Australia and New Zealand: Variations, research findings and prospects - K. DalyItaly: A lesson in tolerance? - D. NelkenYouth Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Japan - M. FenwickVOLUME 3: CHILDREN′S RIGHTS AND STATE RESPONSIBILITIESPart Eight: The International Human Rights FrameworkConvention on the Rights of the Child - United Nations General Assembly (1989)Resolution 60/231: Rights of the child - United Nations General Assembly (2006)General Comment No. 10: Children′s rights in juvenile justice - United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2007)Part Nine: Rights and Justice: Rhetoric and RealityInternational Human Rights Law: Imperialist, inept and ineffective? Cultural relativism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - S. Harris-ShortGlobal Inequalities - H. PennJustice as a Two-Way Street - D. CookJuvenile Justice: The ′Unwanted Child′: Why the potential of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is not being realized, and what we can do about it - B. AbramsonJuvenile Justice Rhetoric - J. MillerPart Ten: Abuses and ViolationsExpanding Realms of the New Penology: The advent of actuarial justice for juveniles - K. Kempf-Leonard and E. PetersonChallenging Girls′ Invisibility in Juvenile Court - M. Chesney-LindThe New Removals: Aboriginal youth in the Queensland juvenile justice system - I. O′ConnorShackled in the Land of Liberty: No rights for children - W. Mohr, R J. Gelles and I.M. SchwartzFatal Injustice: Rampant punitiveness, child-prisoner deaths and institutionalised denial - a case for comprehensive independent inquiry in England and Wales - B. GoldsonPart Eleven: Rethinking Juvenile JusticeThe Way Forward - P.S. PinheiroChallenging the Criminalization of Children and Young People: Securing a rights-based agenda - P. Scraton and D. HaydonYouth Justice? The impact of system contact on patterns of desistance from offending - L. McAra and S. McVieRethinking Youth Justice: Comparative analysis, international human rights and research evidence - B. Goldson and J. Muncie

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John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.

• VOLUME 1: THE ′YOUTH PROBLEM′Part One: The Sociology of Childhood and YouthChildhood in History - P. ThaneConstructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: An interpretative survey, 1800 to the present - H. HendrickThe Origins of Adolescence - J. SpringhallChildhood Matters: An introduction - J. QvortrupThe Sociological Child - A. James, C. Jenks, and A. ProutPart Two: The Discovery of DelinquencyReport of Committee into Juvenile Delinquency (1816)The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth Century England - S. MagareyThe Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England 1780-1840: Changing patterns of perception and prosecution - P. KingThe Idea of Juvenile Crime in 19th Century England - H. ShorePart Three: The Origins of Juvenile JusticeInnocence and Experience: The evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century - M. MayCriminal and Destitute Children (1853) - Select Committee Report The Triumph of Benevolence: The origins of the juvenile justice system in the United States - A. PlattPart Four: Representations and RealitiesRepresentations of the Young - C. GriffinSteal to survive: The social crime of working class children 1890-1940 - S. HumphriesDelinquency and the Age Structure of Society - D. GreenbergYoung People, Culture and the Construction of Crime: Doing wrong versus doing crime - M. PresdeeVOLUME 2: JUVENILE CORRECTIONSPart Five: Welfare, Justice and Risk ManagementChildren in Trouble - Home Office (1968)Wider, Stronger and Different Nets: The dialectics of criminal justice reform - J. Austin and B. KrisbergCorporatism: The third model of juvenile justice - J. PrattExplaining and Preventing Crime: The globalisation of knowledge - D. FarringtonPredicting Criminality?: Risk factors, neighbourhood influence and desistance - C. Webster, R. MacDonald and M. SimpsonRestorative Justice for Juveniles: Just a technique or a fully fledged alternative? - L. WalgravePart Six: PunitivenessEntitlement to Cruelty: The end of welfare and the punitive mentality in the United States - J. SimonDeadly symbiosis: When ghetto and prison meet and mesh - L. WacquantWaiver and Juvenile Justice Reform: Widening the punitive net - A. Merlo, P. Benekos and W. CookTaking Liberties: Policy and the punitive turn - B. GoldsonGirls at Risk? Reflections on changing attitudes to young women′s offending - A. WorrallPart Seven: International and Comparative Youth JusticeTrends in International Juvenile Justice: What conclusions can be drawn? - J. Junger-TasThe Globalization of Crime Control - the Case of Youth and Juvenile Justice: Neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions - J. MunciePublic Safety and the Management of Fear - R. Van SwaaningenLaw and order as a Leftist Project?: The case of Sweden - H. ThamConferencing in Australia and New Zealand: Variations, research findings and prospects - K. DalyItaly: A lesson in tolerance? - D. NelkenYouth Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Japan - M. FenwickVOLUME 3: CHILDREN′S RIGHTS AND STATE RESPONSIBILITIESPart Eight: The International Human Rights FrameworkConvention on the Rights of the Child - United Nations General Assembly (1989)Resolution 60/231: Rights of the child - United Nations General Assembly (2006)General Comment No. 10: Children′s rights in juvenile justice - United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2007)Part Nine: Rights and Justice: Rhetoric and RealityInternational Human Rights Law: Imperialist, inept and ineffective? Cultural relativism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - S. Harris-ShortGlobal Inequalities - H. PennJustice as a Two-Way Street - D. CookJuvenile Justice: The ′Unwanted Child′: Why the potential of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is not being realized, and what we can do about it - B. AbramsonJuvenile Justice Rhetoric - J. MillerPart Ten: Abuses and ViolationsExpanding Realms of the New Penology: The advent of actuarial justice for juveniles - K. Kempf-Leonard and E. PetersonChallenging Girls′ Invisibility in Juvenile Court - M. Chesney-LindThe New Removals: Aboriginal youth in the Queensland juvenile justice system - I. O′ConnorShackled in the Land of Liberty: No rights for children - W. Mohr, R J. Gelles and I.M. SchwartzFatal Injustice: Rampant punitiveness, child-prisoner deaths and institutionalised denial - a case for comprehensive independent inquiry in England and Wales - B. GoldsonPart Eleven: Rethinking Juvenile JusticeThe Way Forward - P.S. PinheiroChallenging the Criminalization of Children and Young People: Securing a rights-based agenda - P. Scraton and D. HaydonYouth Justice? The impact of system contact on patterns of desistance from offending - L. McAra and S. McVieRethinking Youth Justice: Comparative analysis, international human rights and research evidence - B. Goldson and J. Muncie

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John Muncie is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at the Open University, UK. He is the author of Youth and Crime (5th edition, Sage, 2021), and he has published widely on issues in comparative youth justice and children’s rights, including the co-edited companion volumes Youth Crime and Justice and Comparative Youth Justice (Sage, 2006). He has produced numerous Open University texts and readers, including Crime: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), Criminal Justice: Local and Global (Willan, 2010), The Problem of Crime (2nd edition, Sage, 2001), Crime Prevention and Community Safety (Sage, 2001) and Imprisonment: European Perspectives (Harvester, 1991). He has also contributed nine volumes to the The Sage Library of Criminology (Sage, 2007–2009). He is co-editor of the Sage journal Youth Justice: An International Journal.

• VOLUME 1: THE ′YOUTH PROBLEM′Part One: The Sociology of Childhood and YouthChildhood in History - P. ThaneConstructions and Reconstructions of British Childhood: An interpretative survey, 1800 to the present - H. HendrickThe Origins of Adolescence - J. SpringhallChildhood Matters: An introduction - J. QvortrupThe Sociological Child - A. James, C. Jenks, and A. ProutPart Two: The Discovery of DelinquencyReport of Committee into Juvenile Delinquency (1816)The Invention of Juvenile Delinquency in Early Nineteenth Century England - S. MagareyThe Rise of Juvenile Delinquency in England 1780-1840: Changing patterns of perception and prosecution - P. KingThe Idea of Juvenile Crime in 19th Century England - H. ShorePart Three: The Origins of Juvenile JusticeInnocence and Experience: The evolution of the concept of juvenile delinquency in the mid-nineteenth century - M. MayCriminal and Destitute Children (1853) - Select Committee Report The Triumph of Benevolence: The origins of the juvenile justice system in the United States - A. PlattPart Four: Representations and RealitiesRepresentations of the Young - C. GriffinSteal to survive: The social crime of working class children 1890-1940 - S. HumphriesDelinquency and the Age Structure of Society - D. GreenbergYoung People, Culture and the Construction of Crime: Doing wrong versus doing crime - M. PresdeeVOLUME 2: JUVENILE CORRECTIONSPart Five: Welfare, Justice and Risk ManagementChildren in Trouble - Home Office (1968)Wider, Stronger and Different Nets: The dialectics of criminal justice reform - J. Austin and B. KrisbergCorporatism: The third model of juvenile justice - J. PrattExplaining and Preventing Crime: The globalisation of knowledge - D. FarringtonPredicting Criminality?: Risk factors, neighbourhood influence and desistance - C. Webster, R. MacDonald and M. SimpsonRestorative Justice for Juveniles: Just a technique or a fully fledged alternative? - L. WalgravePart Six: PunitivenessEntitlement to Cruelty: The end of welfare and the punitive mentality in the United States - J. SimonDeadly symbiosis: When ghetto and prison meet and mesh - L. WacquantWaiver and Juvenile Justice Reform: Widening the punitive net - A. Merlo, P. Benekos and W. CookTaking Liberties: Policy and the punitive turn - B. GoldsonGirls at Risk? Reflections on changing attitudes to young women′s offending - A. WorrallPart Seven: International and Comparative Youth JusticeTrends in International Juvenile Justice: What conclusions can be drawn? - J. Junger-TasThe Globalization of Crime Control - the Case of Youth and Juvenile Justice: Neo-liberalism, policy convergence and international conventions - J. MunciePublic Safety and the Management of Fear - R. Van SwaaningenLaw and order as a Leftist Project?: The case of Sweden - H. ThamConferencing in Australia and New Zealand: Variations, research findings and prospects - K. DalyItaly: A lesson in tolerance? - D. NelkenYouth Crime and Crime Control in Contemporary Japan - M. FenwickVOLUME 3: CHILDREN′S RIGHTS AND STATE RESPONSIBILITIESPart Eight: The International Human Rights FrameworkConvention on the Rights of the Child - United Nations General Assembly (1989)Resolution 60/231: Rights of the child - United Nations General Assembly (2006)General Comment No. 10: Children′s rights in juvenile justice - United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (2007)Part Nine: Rights and Justice: Rhetoric and RealityInternational Human Rights Law: Imperialist, inept and ineffective? Cultural relativism and the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - S. Harris-ShortGlobal Inequalities - H. PennJustice as a Two-Way Street - D. CookJuvenile Justice: The ′Unwanted Child′: Why the potential of the Convention on the Rights of the Child is not being realized, and what we can do about it - B. AbramsonJuvenile Justice Rhetoric - J. MillerPart Ten: Abuses and ViolationsExpanding Realms of the New Penology: The advent of actuarial justice for juveniles - K. Kempf-Leonard and E. PetersonChallenging Girls′ Invisibility in Juvenile Court - M. Chesney-LindThe New Removals: Aboriginal youth in the Queensland juvenile justice system - I. O′ConnorShackled in the Land of Liberty: No rights for children - W. Mohr, R J. Gelles and I.M. SchwartzFatal Injustice: Rampant punitiveness, child-prisoner deaths and institutionalised denial - a case for comprehensive independent inquiry in England and Wales - B. GoldsonPart Eleven: Rethinking Juvenile JusticeThe Way Forward - P.S. PinheiroChallenging the Criminalization of Children and Young People: Securing a rights-based agenda - P. Scraton and D. HaydonYouth Justice? The impact of system contact on patterns of desistance from offending - L. McAra and S. McVieRethinking Youth Justice: Comparative analysis, international human rights and research evidence - B. Goldson and J. Muncie

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