Punishment, youth justice and cultural contingency: towards a balanced approach

Hamilton, C.; Fitzgibbon, W.; Carr, N.

Abstract

Reflecting developments in the broader penological realm, accounts have been advanced over the last number of decades about a ‘punitive turn’ in the youth justice systems of Western democracies. Against the background of this work, this project seeks to identify convergent and divergent trends in the youth justice systems of England, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland as well as the rationalities and discourses animating these. The results lend support to research emphasising the continued salience of national, regional and local factors on penal outcomes but also suggest the need to steer an analytical path somewhere between nomothetic (convergent) and idiographic (divergent) accounts.

Citation

Hamilton, C., Fitzgibbon, W., & Carr, N. (2016). Punishment, youth justice and cultural contingency: towards a balanced approach. Youth Justice, 16(3), 226-245. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225415619500

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 1, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Jan 10, 2016
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2016
• Deposit Date: Nov 2, 2018
• Journal: Youth Justice
• Print ISSN: 1473-2254
• Electronic ISSN: 1747-6283
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 226-245
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1473225415619500
• Keywords: Comparative youth justice; Convergence; Divergence; Punitive turn
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1222970
• Publisher URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1473225415619500
• Additional Information: Copyright © 2016 by SAGE Publications