Race, Recognition and Retribution in Contemporary Youth Justice
provides a cross-national, sociohistorical investigation of the
legacy of racial discrimination, which informs contemporary youth
justice practice in Canada and England. The book links racial
disparities in youth justice, especially exclusion from ideologies
of care and notions of future citizenship, with historical
practices of exclusion. Despite the logic of care found in both
rehabilitative and retributive forms of youth justice, Black
inner-city youth remain excluded from lenience and social welfare
considerations. This exclusion reflects a historical legacy of
racial discrimination apparent in the harsher sanctions levied
against Black, innercity youth. In exploring race's role in this
arrangement, the book asks: To what extent were Black youth
excluded from historic considerations of the lenience and social
care, built into the logic of youth justice in England and Canada?
To what extent are the disproportionately high incarceration rates,
for Black, inner-city youth in the contemporary system, a
reflection of a historic exclusion from considerations of lenience
and social care? How might contemporary justice efforts be
reoriented to explicitly prioritize considerations of lenience and
social care ahead of penalty for Black, inner-city youth? Examining
the entrenched structural continuities of racial discrimination,
the book draws on archival and interview data, with interviewees
including professionals who work with inner-city youth. In concert
with the archival and interview data, the book offers the
intractability/malleability I/M thesis, an integrated social
theoretical logic with the capacity to expand the customary
analytical scope for understanding the contemporary entrenched
normalization of racialized youth as punishable. The aim is to
advance a historicized account, exploring youth's positioning as
constitutive of a continuity of racialized peoples', in general,
and youth's, in particular, historic exclusion from the benefits of
modern rights, including lenience and care. The I/M logic takes its
analytical currency from a combined critical race theory (CRT) and
recognition theory. The book argues that a truly progressive era of
youth justice necessitates cultivating policy and practice which
explicitly prioritizes considerations of lenience and social care,
ahead of reliance on penalty. This multidisciplinary book is
valuable reading for academics and students researching
criminology, sociology, politics, anthropology, critical race
studies, and history. It will also appeal to practitioners in the
field of youth justice, policymakers, and third-sector
organizations.
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