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Juvenile Justice and Youth Vulnerabilities

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Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice

Abstract

In juvenile justice systems ‘vulnerability’ is generally framed in terms of the concept of ‘risk’. As discussed in this chapter, such framing tends to individualise the nature of vulnerability and to reinforce the idea that juvenile offending is primarily a personal responsibility.

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  1. School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia

    Rob White

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  1. The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Kitty te Riele

  2. The Victoria Institute, Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia

    Radhika Gorur

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White, R. (2015). Juvenile Justice and Youth Vulnerabilities. In: Riele, K.t., Gorur, R. (eds) Interrogating Conceptions of “Vulnerable Youth” in Theory, Policy and Practice. Innovations and Controversies: Interrogating Educational Change. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-121-2_5

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