Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Justice Studies
Learning Methods
Lecture
Online
Workshop
Module Offerings
6214CRIM-SEP-MTP
Aims
This module aims to:
1. Explore how the emergence and development of the youth justice system has served to recognise the special case of the child in conflict with the law.
2. Examine how criminology has sought to conceptualise and address the Youth Justice System and its impacts on children's and young people's lives and life chances.
3. Evaluate the Youth Justice System's attempts to address the deviant, criminal and violent behaviours of children and young people.
Learning Outcomes
1.
Critically evaluate the development of youth justice policy and practice responses to children and young people in England and Wales.
2.
Critically assess the theoretical perspectives used to study youth justice responses to children and young people.
3.
Critically analyse enduring and topical issues relating to the impacts of youth justice responses on children and young people.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:
The development of youth justice legal, policy and practice responses to children and young people. The conceptualisation of youth justice in respect of ‘welfare’; ‘justice’; ‘neoliberal’ and ‘pragmatic’ political priorities. The impacts of youth justice responses for children and young people with regard to issues such as: restorative justice, custody, diversion, gender-sensitive provision, children in care; children who have experienced criminal or sexual exploitation and children engaged in gangs & violent crime.
The development of youth justice legal, policy and practice responses to children and young people. The conceptualisation of youth justice in respect of ‘welfare’; ‘justice’; ‘neoliberal’ and ‘pragmatic’ political priorities. The impacts of youth justice responses for children and young people with regard to issues such as: restorative justice, custody, diversion, gender-sensitive provision, children in care; children who have experienced criminal or sexual exploitation and children engaged in gangs & violent crime.
Module Overview:
This module will explore how the emergence and development of the youth justice system has served to recognise the special case of the child in conflict with the law. You will examine how criminology has sought to conceptualise and address the Youth Justice System and its impacts on children's and young people's lives and life chances. This will enable you to evaluate the Youth Justice System's attempts to address the deviant, criminal and violent behaviours of children and young people.
This module will explore how the emergence and development of the youth justice system has served to recognise the special case of the child in conflict with the law. You will examine how criminology has sought to conceptualise and address the Youth Justice System and its impacts on children's and young people's lives and life chances. This will enable you to evaluate the Youth Justice System's attempts to address the deviant, criminal and violent behaviours of children and young people.
Additional Information:
This module will look at youth justice policy and practice responses to children and young people and how these can be analysed and explained. Balancing accountability and the rehabilitation and welfare needs of children and young people raises critical questions regarding the most appropriate ways to respond, including: At what age should children be held criminally responsible? Should imprisonment ever be used as a form of punishment for children and young people? Do formal criminal processes harm children and young people? Can state responses to children and young people be considered in isolation from other services or interventions? The module will explore how these questions have been addressed and responded to within England and Wales.
This module will look at youth justice policy and practice responses to children and young people and how these can be analysed and explained. Balancing accountability and the rehabilitation and welfare needs of children and young people raises critical questions regarding the most appropriate ways to respond, including: At what age should children be held criminally responsible? Should imprisonment ever be used as a form of punishment for children and young people? Do formal criminal processes harm children and young people? Can state responses to children and young people be considered in isolation from other services or interventions? The module will explore how these questions have been addressed and responded to within England and Wales.