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Book Review Essay Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 45(3) 438–442 ! The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0004865812458054 anj.sagepub.com Barry Goldson (ed.) Youth in Crisis? ‘Gangs’, Territoriality and Violence, Routledge: London, 2011; 227 pp.: ISBN 9781843927525 (hbk), ISBN 9781843927518 (pbk) Chris Cunneen and Rob White, Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia (4th edition), Oxford University Press: Melbourne, 2011; 422 pp.: ISBN 9780195574098 (pbk) Anyone familiar with the area of youth justice will understand the importance of con- tinuing the debate about youth crime and deviancy. Youth crime seems to be a ‘problem’ existing since time immemorial that continues to garner significant interest from media, social, and political commentators. Commentary often assumes young people engaged in criminal behaviours are inherently criminal/deviant and in need of heavy regulation by police and other governmental authorities (Omaji, 2003). Unreliable statistics, pastoral/ authoritarian generalisations about the ‘nature’ of young people, and moralistic sensa- tionalism drive a law and order ethic to target young people with retributive ‘crack- downs’ to correct their wayward conduct (Carrington and Pereira, 2009). Young people who congregate in groups are especially demonised as ‘gangs’. In the rush to expunge youth ‘gangs’ from public spaces, recent preventative policies have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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© The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav
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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 45(3) 438–442 ! The Author(s) 2012 Reprints and permissions: sagepub.co.uk/journalsPermissions.nav DOI: 10.1177/0004865812458054 anj.sagepub.com Barry Goldson (ed.) Youth in Crisis? ‘Gangs’, Territoriality and Violence, Routledge: London, 2011; 227 pp.: ISBN 9781843927525 (hbk), ISBN 9781843927518 (pbk) Chris Cunneen and Rob White, Juvenile Justice: Youth and Crime in Australia (4th edition), Oxford University Press: Melbourne, 2011; 422 pp.: ISBN 9780195574098 (pbk) Anyone familiar with the area of youth justice will understand the importance of con- tinuing the debate about youth crime and deviancy. Youth crime seems to be a ‘problem’ existing since time immemorial that continues to garner significant interest from media, social, and political commentators. Commentary often assumes young people engaged in criminal behaviours are inherently criminal/deviant and in need of heavy regulation by police and other governmental authorities (Omaji, 2003). Unreliable statistics, pastoral/ authoritarian generalisations about the ‘nature’ of young people, and moralistic sensa- tionalism drive a law and order ethic to target young people with retributive ‘crack- downs’ to correct their wayward conduct (Carrington and Pereira, 2009). Young people who congregate in groups are especially demonised as ‘gangs’. In the rush to expunge youth ‘gangs’ from public spaces, recent preventative policies have

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Published: Dec 1, 2012

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