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British Journal of Criminology, doi:10.1093/bjc/azl088
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Practice Cultures and the ‘New’ Youth Justice in (England and) Wales

Stewart Field 1 *

1 Cardiff Law School, University of Cardiff, Law Building, Museum Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3AX

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Stewart Field, E-mail: FieldSA{at}cardiff.ac.uk


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This paper considers the extent to which the Government’s declared intentions to unite youth justice practice cultures around a common emphasis on preventing offending through early criminal justice intervention have been realized in practice. Based on interviews with a range of practitioners in Wales in 2003/04, it examines their priorities and underlying objectives. It outlines a complex pattern of change in which concern for the welfare of young offenders has been not so much marginalized as reconstituted in more conditional terms. The article questions whether this complexity can be adequately captured by suggestions of a ‘punitive turn’ in youth justice.


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