Young offenders and juvenile crime have a high public profile today. In most advanced industrialized countries there is the same heightened awareness of youth issues, fulled by extensive media hype surrounding youthful deviance and anti-social behavior. Juvenile Justice: An Australian perspective describes and examines the issues, people and institutions involved in juvenile justice in Australia.

• c Part 1: History, Theory and Institutions


• 1. The Development of Juvenile Justice


• 2. Theories of Juvenile Offending


• 3. The Nature of Contemporary Juvenile Crime


• 4. The Institutions of Juvenile Justice


• Part 2: The Social Dynamics of Juvenile Justice


• 5. Class and Community


• 6. Indigenous Young People


• 7. Ethnic Minority Young People


• 8. Young Women, Young Men and Gender


• Part 3: The State, Punishment and Community


• 9. Policing the Young


• 10. Courts and Sentencing Processes


• 11. Detention and Community Corrections


• 12. Youth Crime Prevention


• 13. Restorative Justice and Juvenile Conferencing

Chris Cunneen, Professor in the faculties of Arts and Social Sciences, and Law, University of New South Wales
Rob White, Professor of Criminology in the School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania
Kelly Richards, Senior Lecturer in the School of Justice, Queensland University of Technology