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Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong - Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship (Hardcover, New)
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Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong - Penal Elitism, Legitimacy and Citizenship (Hardcover, New)
Series: Routledge Research On Public and Social Policy in Asia
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A society's response to youth crime reveals much about its broader
cultural values, social circumstances, and political affairs. This
book examines reactions and policy responses to youth delinquency
and crime in Hong Kong during its colonial and post-colonial
periods, and in doing so, underscores the history of Hong Kong
itself and its present-day circumstances. Exploring how officials
have responded to youth crime in Hong Kong over time, this book
tracks the emergence of a penal elitist mode of governance,
highlighting concerns not only about young people's behavior but
the need for officials to establish state authority and promote
citizen identification. In turn, it reveals an alternative to the
'usual story' about youth crime found in many western regions and
provides an opportunity to begin to develop a comparative
criminology. The book examines the emergence of the 'disciplinary
welfare' tariff during the 1970s, debates and policy changes
related to the minimum age of criminal responsibility and youth sex
crimes, and inaction regarding the introduction of restorative
justice initiatives in the post-colonial era. It also addresses the
power of 'Post-80s' youth to protest and challenge government
policies, which directly combat contemporary fears regarding the
'mainlandization' of Hong Kong. Drawing on archival sources,
official reports and interviews with key stakeholders in the
juvenile justice system, Responding to Youth Crime in Hong Kong
will appeal to students and scholars interested in Chinese society,
criminology, social work, sociology and youth studies.
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