Evaluates the workings of juvenile justice and the relationship between young people and practitioners in a key era of social change

Louise A. Jackson is Reader in Modern Social History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh
Angela Bartie is Lecturer in History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde

Introduction: Welfare and justice
1. The police
2. The juvenile court: property, place and play
3. Violence
4. Sexuality
5. Home, neighbourhood and community
6. Commercial leisure
7. Reform
Afterword
Select bibliography
Index