Jane Pickford is a Senior Lecturer in Law and Criminology at the University of East London. She has extensive experience of working within the youth justice field, particularly within the court arena for a London Youth Offending Service. Paul Dugmore is clinical lecturer in social work and senior social worker in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic, part of the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.His post is split equally between clinical work and teaching. Clinically, Paul is based in a CAMHS team working with children individually, with parents or with families. He teaches on courses within the CAMHS cluster where he is organising tutor for the MA - From Safeguarding to Permanence: Psychodynamic and Systemic Therapeutic Practice with Children in Complex Settings. He has also led on a capacity building programme relating to promoting the mental health and wellbeing of children. Paul is undertaking doctoral research focussing on how social workers engage with children’s emotional lives and is currently undertaking training in Video Feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting (VIPP) and the Dynamic Maturational Model of Attachment (DMM) at the Tavistock Clinic.He retains an interest in social work supervision, practice learning and the ASYE programme.

• IntroductionValues, Ethics and Human Rights in Youth Justice Social WorkThe Development of Youth Justice Philosophies, Laws and PoliciesCriminological Theories in Relation to Young People who OffendThe Laws and Sentencing Framework of Contemporary Youth Justice PracticeWorking within a Youth Offending Team and in the Youth Justice SystemAssessing Young PeopleWorking with Young PeopleLooking ForwardConclusion

′This is a very good book for those students contemplating a career in youth justice and/or those students about to undertake a placement in this field. Newly qualified practitioners would also benefit from elements of this text...A straightfoward, comprehensive, practical handbook to working as a social worker in a YOT in England′ - British Journal of Social Work ′The book was factual, clear and thought provoking - excellent for first and second year undergraduates′ -